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Letter from Johnstone to AFT president Albert Shanker thanking him for comments in New York Times of March 26, 1989, re SUNY and CUNY budget problems; newspaper clipping re Johnstone; dinner invitation

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Letters to NYSUT president Hobart from Korean War veteran Thomas Murphy protesting inequitable retirement credits for teachers who served in armed forces; reply from Hobart that decision rests with state legislature in spite of efforts of NYSUT

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Letter to NYSUT president Hobart from Klanwatch, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, asking for a copy of the study guide on the KKK being prepared by NYSUT, offering to send mini-textbook being prepared by Klanwatch, October 22, 1981, with attached brochure; letter to Hobart from retired NYSUT member urging action against KKK; reply from Hobart with attached article from AFL-CIO American Federationist

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AFL-CIO affinity organization for Hispanic Americans. Convention report, April 13-16, 1987; membership application; brochure; routine correspondence

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Labor Desk of the United States Youth Council, an international youth labor program. Newsletters; program paper, "Black Labor as a Swing Factor in South Africa's Evolution," by Roy Godson, spring 1979

Scope and Contents Statement of Ben Wattenberg, chairman, Coalition for a Democratic Majority, before the 1984 Democratic Platform Committee, re foreign policy, April 9, 1984; program for AFL-CIO 24th Constitutional Convention, August 1986; text of speech, "The Nicaraguan Democratic Struggle: Our Unfinished Revolution," by Alfonso Robelo, with cover letter from Social Democrats, July 1985; NYSUT brochure, "Organized Labor's Foreign Policy"; AFL-CIO brochure, "Foreign Policy with a Purpose"; memo from AFT...

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Memo from NYSUT Office of General Counsel giving legal opinion re force of commissioner's regulations in the absence of legislation

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Resolutions that NYSUT will reimburse fees to members exonerated in legal disputes

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Correspondence on legal matters with staff about grievances and on matters such as the right to strike; brochure for teachers re NYSUT legal services

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Memoranda re Kramarsky v. Delta Air Lines, Inc, 1982; Grace Brethren Church v. California, 1981; petition against Southold Teacher Association, July 8, 1982; legal briefs