Box 17

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Legal brief before the Federal Trade Commission to modify its 1971 final order restricting certain NAWCAS practices, with cover note to Mazur, December 4, 1984

Scope and Contents See also National Immigration Forum 1994 Report by the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees, “The Misguided Use of In-Country Refugee Processing in Haiti,” September 2, 1993; ILGWU press release, “Statement by Jay Mazur: Status of Haitian Refugees,” December 20, 1991; “Democracy through Terror” statement of Michael S. Hooper, executive director of the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of...

Scope and Contents Letter to Mazur from the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees asking for support for Cuban-Haitian Adjustment Act of 1985, with model letter to members of Congress, February 19, 19985; amicus curiae brief of the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees et al. before the U.S. Supreme Court in re Marie Lucie Jean et al. vs. Alan C. Nelson et al., October 1984; immigration emergency legislation hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Policy of the Committee on the...

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...

Scope and Contents Minutes of National Executive Committee meeting, January 31, 1992, recommending Jerry Goodman as a successor to outgoing NCLI executive vice president Yehuda Ebstein; minutes of December 9, 1992, meeting; memo from Goodman outlining financial terms of employment, February 19, 1992; letter to Mazur from Stanley Lowell (Fink Weinberger attorneys) praising selection of Goodman, March 31, 1992; correspondence re contributions to Israel hospital and health centers, April 1992; letter to Mazur...

Scope and Contents see also Histadrut; see also Klein, Adam (Klein & Co.) Annual statement for the year ended December 31, 1990, listing trustees of National Committee for Labor Israel – Israel Histradrut Campaign; agenda of National Executive Committee meeting of May 31, 1991, with related documents brought by Mazur and report from executive vice president Yehuda Ebstein; projection of NCLI obligations to personnel and others at hypothetical dissolution date of March 31, 1991; “extremely confidential”...

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Confidential memos to Mazur from management consultant Adam Klein, president of Klein & Co., re reorganization of NCLI, difficulties with executive vice president Yehuda Ebstein; handwritten notes by Mazur; memo from Ebstein to Mazur introducing Klein

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Draft of letter of resignation by Mazur as president of NCLI, noting decisions made without his knowledge; personal and confidential memo to Mazur from Yehuda Ebstein re relationship of president to executive vice president and organization, noting disagreements re duties and responsibilities, February 27, 1991; handwritten notes by Mazur answering points in memo; other memos and notes documenting problems re working relationship with Ebstein, lack of communication

Scope and Contents Draft of press release announcing appointment of Mazur as president of National Committee for Labor Israel, December 3, 1990; letters to Mazur congratulating him on being named president of the National Committee for Labor Israel, with replies from Mazur, November 1990 – February 1991; correspondence between Mazur and predecessor, Bruce Vladeck, president United Hospital Fund, expressing dismay at response to inquiry re payment of salary of Histadrut representative, related correspondence...