Box 21

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Outline and speech by Mazur welcoming visitors from South Africa, discussing need for labor solidarity and social safety net in the years following the first multiracial elections, January 11- 12, 1994; agenda for meeting

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Letters to Mazur discussing agenda; letter to president of National Union of Mine Workers, September 9, 1988; list of participants

Scope and Contents Letter to Mazur from the Lesotho-Haps Development Co. re striking workers, August 22, 1991; funding proposal for SACTU National Open School, with cover letter to Mazur from AFL-CIO African-American Labor Center, March 28, 1991; ILO Washington Focus special edition, “Statement of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, at the International Labor Congress: Geneva, June 8, 1990”; flyer for demonstration against apartheid, at South African Consulate in NY, February...

Scope and Contents Letter from NYS Comptroller Edward Regan to Cleveland Robinson, New York Anti-Apartheid Coordinating Council, District 65, UAW, discussing divestment as strategy for promoting change, asserting that selling stock in corporations doing business in South Africa relinquishes ability to influence policy, January 15, 1987; letter to ILGWU assistant president Gus Tyler from Patrick O’Farrell, executive director of the AFL-CIO affiliated African-American Labor Center, discussing coordination of...

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Report by Southern Labor Institute, “The Climate for Workers in the United States,” comparing conditions by state, August 19, 1986

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Obituary of Isador Stenzor; letter to Mazur from Steve Nutter, regional director of ILGWU Western States Region, thanking him for statement re Stenzor, March 31, 1988

Scope and Contents Press release announcing merger of ILGWU and ACTWU to take on sweatshops and forge new international strategies, February 20; bullet points re legislation to enhance anti-sweatshop enforcement in NYS apparel industry; memo to Mazur from ILGWU exec vp Susan Cowell re NYS sweatshop legislation, January 19; analysis of New York Times article of February 6, describing sweatshops throughout NYC; letter from Mazur to Eli Elias, president of the New York Skirt and Sportswear Association, asking for...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Consists of the records of Jay Mazur, during his term as President of the ILGWU until its merger with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers of America to form the Union of Needletrades, Industrial, and Textile Employees (UNITE) in 1995. Included in Mazur's files are alphabetical subject files which contain correspondence, memoranda, notes, testimonies, news clippings, and other printed material on persons, organizations, and topics relating to the work of the ILGWU. Also, these papers...

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Press release, “ILG Backs Cuomo in Push for Crackdown on Sweatshops,” January 6; U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) report on sweatshops in the apparel and other industries throughout the U.S., with cover memo to Mazur and other ILGWU officials from ILG chief counsel Max Zimny, September 14; press release, statement by Mazur at press conference with Rep. Chuck Schumer re GAO report on sweatshops, calling for stricter federal legislation, June 26, 1989

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Memo to file from Mazur re clothing firm Tahari, withdrawing from NLRB action, willing to discuss damages, meet with Mazur and ACTWU president Jack Sheinkman; handwritten notes by Mazur