Box 20

Scope and Contents Letter to Mazur inviting him to serve on the Advisory Board of the Rosenberg/ Humphrey program, September 7, 1988, with affirmative reply, October 18; letters re meetings; printed copies of lectures: “The Cycles of American Politics,” by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., December 4, 1985; “How to Get the Poor Off Our Mind – Formulae Ancient, Modern, and Now,” by John Kenneth Galbraith, April 21, 1986; “Fiscal Policy, Public Morality and the Failure of Leadership,” by William H. Grey III, April 27,...

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Division of Jonathan Logan. Notes re meeting; activity report on firm

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Correspondence between Mazur and the Coalition to Protect Social Security re contribution; fundraising letter from Mazur to unionists, June 1986

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Letters to Mazur re contributions to events sponsored by network of restaurants raising money for local food banks, homeless shelters, and other relief agencies; newspaper article by SOS director Bill Shore in Nation’s Restaurant News, August 4, 1986, “What the Industry Can Do To Battle Hunger in America”; other newspaper clipping

Scope and Contents Memo to Mazur from ILGWU international relations director Michele Briones re worldwide campaign against Domsey Trading Corp., Brooklyn, NY, for its abuse of workers, July 22, 1990; letters from Mazur and from Rev. Jesse Jackson, National Rainbow Coalition, to Salvation Army official noting profits made by Domsey from buying clothing contributions from Salvation Army and reselling them in African and other Third World nations, describing abuse of workers, asking for meeting, July 19 and 23,...

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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Letter from the dean to AFSCME District Council 37 special advisor Victor Gotbaum, newly appointed as Samuel Gompers Professor of Labor-Management Relations at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School, offering to participate in activities together with New York University, September 3, 1987, with cover letter from Gotbaum to Mazur, noting positive development, September 19, 1987

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Press release re appointment of top NAACP executive, Joe Madison, political director for SEIU, May 13, 1986; routine correspondence

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Letter from Mazur to NYS Assemblyman Jose Serrano inviting him to address the graduation ceremony of English as a Second Language and other worker-students from citywide union program established in part through workplace literacy legislation sponsored by Serrano, May 19, 1988

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Article by ILGWU asst president Gus Tyler re the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, “Managing Our Trade: The Wrong Shadow of Smoot-Hawley,” in the New Leader, January 11-25, 1988, arguing that the tariff neither caused nor exacerbated the Great Depression, with cover letter to Mazur, March 18, 1988