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Textile and Apparel Trade Endorsement Act of 1985
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 2 million garment workers," January 7, 1986; memo
to Mazur with notes on legislation and imports in preparation for
congressional meetings in Washington, March 10 and 11 (1987); memo from
the Kamber Group to ACTWU General Executive Board outlining strategy
campaign to override the veto, March 17, 1986; memo to Mazur from ILGWU
vp Susan Cowell re Kamber memo, March 31, 1986; memo to Mazur from Saul
Rosen re Kamber memo and Susan Cowell's critique, April 7, 1986; memo
from vp Cowell to exec vp Wilbur Daniels re coordinating with ACTWU on
override campaign, April 24, 1986; press release from ACTWU, "American
Public Supports Override of Textile Bill Veto, According to New National
Opinion Survey," July 28, 1986; Statement of Jack Sheinkman,
secretary/treasurer, Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union;
Statement of Jay Mazur, president, ILGWU, calling for veto of veto;
charts showing increase in U.S. textile and apparel imports and
concurrent decline in industry jobs, 1975-85, and related fact sheets;
letter from President Reagan to Sen. Strom Thurmond re concerns over
unemployment and decrease in textile/apparel production caused by
imports, October 4, 1982; letters or press releases from National
Farmers Organization, Oklahoma Farmers Union, National Corn Growers
Association, National Consumers League, and American Textile
Manufacturers Institute in support of bill; Statement by the AFL-CIO
Executive Council on Overriding the Veto of the Textile and Apparel
Trade Enforcement Act, August, 1986; material by the Fiber, Fabric &
Apparel Coalition for Trade (FFACT), including fact sheet on the Textile
and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act and analysis of trade issues, May
1986; Department of State "gist" summary of U.S. foreign relations
policy re textile import control program, March 1986; letters from Mazur
to Benjamin Hooks, NAACP, urging adoption of attached resolution
supporting override of veto of the trade bill, July 15 and 23, 1986;
memo from exec asst James Parrott, "Background Material for Schumer
Meeting," with arguments countering the congressman's misgivings about
the trade bill, July 28, 1986; fact sheets on NYC garment industry and
U.S. imports; memo from Parrott re need for fact sheet on why current
legislation is inadequate, to be prepared for congressmen, July 3, 1986;
letters to and from congressmen and Mazur and others re trade bill;
agenda, July 25 Override Meeting, with schedule for lobbying trip to the
Capitol; draft document with handwritten editing and notation "Starobin
for Sen. Hollings," apparently delivered on floor of Senate, criticizing
office of U.S. Special Trade Representative and trade agreement
increasing imports from Hong Kong and Taiwan, n.d.; letter to Secretary
of the Treasury James Baker III in his capacity of chairman of the
Economic Policy Council re failure of advisory process in not consulting
U.S. labor or industry representatives in negotiated agreement with Hong
Kong, signed by Mazur and industry association executives, July 2, 1986;
confidential memo from ILGWU research director Herman Starobin outlining
need for new trade legislation including a rollback of import
restrictions to 1985 levels, n.d.; unsigned papers, "The Need for the
Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement Act," and paper on consumption
spending, June 1986; booklet by ILGWU, "The Import Problem," excerpted
from the General Executive Board Report to the 39th Convention of the
ILGWU, May 30-June 6, 1986; "An Analysis of the Veto Override Vote,"
with note from Mazur to exec. Asst. James Parrott and vp Susan Cowell,
n.d; memos from Mazur to all officers and staff and to all members re
narrow defeat of veto override, August 11 and 12, 1986; Statement by Jay
Mazur, "Failure to Override the President's Veto of the Textile and
Apparel Trade Enforcement Act," vowing to continue the fight, August 6,
1986; memo to Mazur from Saul Rosen advising that the ILG should not
make campaign contributions to any legislators who voted against
overriding the veto, even if they are otherwise friends, August 7, 1986;
Outcome of 1986 Congressional Elections, with notations re voting record
on Textile & Apparel Trade Enforcement Act of 1985; letter from U.S.
Trade Representative to Mazur following up on dinner meeting, noting
differences in perspectives, November 6, 1986; draft of response by
research director Starobin to 5/5/86 Forbes article by Susan Lee re
trade, May 19, 1986; letter from candidate Stuart Epperson soliciting
campaign contribution in race against N. Carolina congressman Steve
Neal, notes commitment from Sen. Steve Symms to include textiles in
proposed FAIR Act, Oct. 3, 1986; letter from Harvard researcher Gloria
Webster to Mazur soliciting comments on draft of analysis of textile and
apparel trade dispute, October 17, 1986; press release, Text of
Testimony of Howard D. Samuel, President, Industrial Union Department,
AFL-CIO, before the Joint Economic Committee Hearings on the Occasion of
the 40th Anniversary of the Employment Act of 1946; "Meeting the
Challenge of International Competition," January 17, 1986; Statement of
Carlos Moore on Behalf of the American Fiber, Textile, Apparel Coalition
Before the Subcommittee on Oversight, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S.
House of Representative, in re. the Impact and Effectiveness of the
Caribbean Basin Initiative, February 27, 1986; text of speech by Under
Secretary for Economic Affairs Allan Wallis before the Economic Policy
Council, "Protecting Prosperity from Protectionism," January 17, 1986;
rebuttal to trade article by Timothy Taylor by Saul Rosen, January 12,
1986; Kiplinger Washington Letter re trade legislation, October 31;
newspaper clippings
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