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Box 21

 Container

Contains 35 Results:

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

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

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

Triangle Fire Commemoration, 1987

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents Letter from historian Joseph Brandes at William Paterson College of New Jersey, suggesting that the ILGWU reprint his monograph on the history of American Jewish labor, November 10, 1987; correspondence with the American Labor Museum Botto House National Landmark (Haledon, NJ) president re ILGW contribution for refreshments for opening reception of Triangle Fire exhibit, October 7, 1987; text for plaque at site of Triangle Fire; text of Mazur speech for Triangle Fire commemoration, March 25,...
Dates: 1987

Triangle Fire Commemoration, 75th Anniversary, 1984-1986

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents Agenda for event; memos re commemorative postage stamp, exhibit at New York Public Library, 1984; sketches of monument and graves; Mazur radio script for Bob and Betty Sanders talk show, Interview WMCA Radio, March 25, 1986; press advisory re interview with Triangle survivor Pauline Cuoio Pepe before 75th anniversary commemorative ceremonies; background information on Mrs. Pepe; press release re event, March 25, 1986; thank-you card from Mrs. Pepe; agenda for commemorative event, March 25,...
Dates: 1984-1986

Trilateral Commission, 1993

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents

See also Speeches – Gray Area Phenomenon 1993; see also Globalization; see also NAFTA; see also Center for Migration Studies Statement by Mazur re draft paper on migration and refugee issues, March 27, 1993; paper, “The International Migration Dilemma,” by Doris Meissner, prepared for the Trilateral Commission

Dates: 1993

Tunnel Vision, 1987-1988

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 27
Scope and Contents

See also AFL-CIO – American Institute for Free Labor Development 1985-1988 Copy of book, Tunnel Vision: Labor, the World Economy, and Central America (Dan Cantor and Juliet Shor), criticizing the anti-communist stance of the AFL-CIO Department of International Affairs and U.S. trade unions generally; memo from American Institute for Free Labor Development criticizing book, February 12, 1988; newspaper clipping, “Labor as Usual,” by William Serrin, Village Voice, February 23, 1988

Dates: 1987-1988

Tyler, Gus, 1984-1987

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents Assistant president of ILGWU and director of union’s Education Department. Letter from the executive director of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities to the executive director of the New York Council for the Humanities, urging him to make Gus Tyler’s acquaintance, December 20, 1987; report to the Education Committee of the General Executive Board, October 7-12, 1987; note from Tyler to Mazur re positive impression of African trade union leaders, September 22, 1987; nine-page analysis...
Dates: 1984-1987

Unemployment, 1986-1989

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clipping from New York Times, “Job Growth Is Stagnant in Region,” July 19; letter from National Committee for Full Employment re First Friday Alerts, calculating “real rate” of joblessness and underemployment, October 20, 1986

Dates: 1986-1989

Unemployment Insurance, 1987

 File — Box: 21, Folder: 30
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...
Dates: 1987