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Box 21

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Contains 35 Results:

Textile and Apparel Trade Endorsement Act of 1985, 1985

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents See also American Fiber, Textile, Apparel Coalition (AFTAC) 1986; see also Speeches – Democratic Policy Commission; see also Imports – Roll-Back Campaign 1984-1985; see also Political Correspondence 1986 Message from the President of the United States (Ronald Reagan) transmitting his veto of Textile & Apparel Trade Enforcement Act of 1985, with full text of bill, December 17, 1985; memo to all ILGWU regional directors from Saul Rosen noting Reagan veto as “Christmas present to America’s...
Dates: 1985
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5780/203, ILGWU. Jay Mazur papers, 1951-1995 / Series II. Subject files

Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act- Save American Jobs, 1986-1987

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

See also American Fiber, Textile, Apparel Coalition (AFTAC) 1986 ILGWU press release, “New York Garment and Textile Workers Fight to Save Their Jobs,” re rally for Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act, July 18, 1986; list of teleconference sites for Save American Industry and Jobs Day, June 12, 1986; letters from Mazur to individual union members thanking them for comments and interest

Dates: 1986-1987
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5780/203, ILGWU. Jay Mazur papers, 1951-1995 / Series II. Subject files

Trade, 1993-1995

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents See also Textile & Apparel Trade; see also Imports; see also NAFTA; see also General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); see also Globilization; see also Caribbean Offshoring Subsidies Remarks by House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, “Building the Future of American Trade: A New Fusion of America’s Interests,” Economic Strategy Institute Annual Conference, March 10, 1994; press release, “Gephardt Announces Introduction of Chile Free Trade Agreement Negotiation Act of 1994,” May 9,...
Dates: 1993-1995
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5780/203, ILGWU. Jay Mazur papers, 1951-1995 / Series II. Subject files

Triangle Fire Commemoration, 1994

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents Text of speech by Mazur; letter from Mazur to Central Labor Council inviting them to 1994 rally, with the theme of supporting safe working conditions for workers throughout the world, with attached flyers and agenda, list of attendees; ILGWU press release press release “Mark 83rd Anniversary of Triangle Fire with Call for ‘No More’ Industrial Tragedies Here or Abroad; Leading Chinese Dissident, Others Spotlight Parallels with Fires That Killed 537 Workers in Thailand and China,” March 25,...
Dates: 1994
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5780/203, ILGWU. Jay Mazur papers, 1951-1995 / Series II. Subject files

Triangle Fire Commemoration, 1993

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

List of speakers and invited dignitaries at 1993 rally; speech by Mazur, March 25, 1993

Dates: 1993
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5780/203, ILGWU. Jay Mazur papers, 1951-1995 / Series II. Subject files

Triangle Fire Commemoration, 1992

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 19
Scope and Contents

Flyer promoting stronger job safety laws, OSHA reform; letter from Mazur to ILGWU NYC managers announcing Triangle rally with theme supporting proposed legislation to strengthen OSHA regulations; letter of invitation to rally, with list of recipients; program, with order of speakers; outline of anti-sweatshop remarks by Mazur, text of introductions of speakers; related correspondence

Dates: 1992
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5780/203, ILGWU. Jay Mazur papers, 1951-1995 / Series II. Subject files

Triangle Fire Commemoration, 1991

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 20
Scope and Contents Text of speech by Mazur, with introductions for other speakers, including NYC mayor David Dinkins, NYC fire commissioner Carlos Rivera, NYS labor commissioner Thomas Hartnett, and relatives of victims of Triangle and Happy Land Social Club fires; program agenda; list of dignitaries on stage; press release re event, noting fire drill as part of commemoration; press release demanding stricter federal workplace safety laws, “Labor Demands ‘Safe Jobs Now’ on 81st Anniversary of Triangle Fire,”...
Dates: 1991
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5780/203, ILGWU. Jay Mazur papers, 1951-1995 / Series II. Subject files

Triangle Fire Commemoration, 1990

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents Drafts of letter from Mazur announcing commemoration event, plus start of a new national Campaign for Justice to organize immigrant workers at modern-day sweatshops, beginning with the Haitian workers of the Domsey Trading Company and other factories in Brooklyn, with mailing list, March 7 and 8; letter to Mazur from Workmen’s Circle president, accepting invitation to joing Campaign for Justice, March 22; letters from Mazur inviting guest speakers; program agendas; text of introductions of...
Dates: 1990
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5780/203, ILGWU. Jay Mazur papers, 1951-1995 / Series II. Subject files

Triangle Fire Commemoration, 1989

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents Text of remarks by Mazur at Triangle commemoration, March 29, 1989, with anti-homework theme; draft, “Return of the Sweatshop,” January 12, 1989; text of introduction of speakers; list of speakers and dignitaries; letters of invitation to speakers, with attached industrial homework fact sheet; text of remarks by ILGWU secretary-treasurer Irwin Solomon at dedication of monument to Triangle Fire victims at Workman’s Circle cemetery, March 23, 1989; memo to Mazur from asst David Melman re plans...
Dates: 1989
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5780/203, ILGWU. Jay Mazur papers, 1951-1995 / Series II. Subject files

Triangle Fire Commemoration, 1988

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents

Press release, “Firefighters Salute Victims of Triangle Disaster as ILGWU Leader Blasts Reagan Administration for ‘Supporting Sweatshop Conditions’ in Decision to Allow Industrial Homework,” March 25, 1988

Dates: 1988
Found in: Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives / 5780/203, ILGWU. Jay Mazur papers, 1951-1995 / Series II. Subject files

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