International

Includes: Executive VP Wilbur Daniels meets with Dr. Paulo Santos, sub-chair of cabinet of the Ministry of Labor in Brazil and interpreter Henry Bagley at ILGWU General Office, 3/11/??; VP Heroch Mendelsund, representing US Garment and Textile Unions at 30th anniversary convention of Zensen Domei, the Japanese counterpart, addresses delegates, with Zensen President Tadanobu Usami and Eiko Igasaki, Secretary of the Textile Workers' Asian Regional organization, who acted as translator, Tokyo, 10/1/75; Visiting the new clinic in Ramat Chen, Israel named after late VP Moe Falikman, former Cutters Manager, are Malka Portugal of Histadrut, Joshua Levy - former Treasurer of Histadrut, Mrs. Stulberg, Honorary President Louis Stulberg, Mrs. Abe Dolgen, Mrs. Falikman, VP Dolgen - Local 10 Manager, and Dr. Franz Brull - head of the Department of Psychiatry at Tel Aviv University, 12/15/75; Getting ready to send off $15,000 worth of clothing to children in Portugal are VP Sol Greene - Manager of Local 155, Portuguese Socialist Francisco Salgado, President Sol C. Chaikin, Henry Proshen - acting manager of Local 105, and VP Edward Schneider - Local 91 Manager, 4/15/76; President Sol C. Chaikin welcomes former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt to a reception in his honor given by the Social Democrats, USA, with Carl Gershman - Executive Director of SD, USA, and Bayard Rustin, National Chairman, 3/15/77; Visiting Turkish Unionists meet with Local 23-25 Assistant Manager Jay Mazur with former ILGWU official Maida Springer Kemp, New York, 4/1/77; President Sol C. Chaikin welcomes Portuguese Premier Mario Soares to reception in his honor sponsored by the ILGWU and Social Democrats USA, with SD National Chairman Bayard Rustin and Israeli UN Ambassador Chaim Herzog, 4/22/77; President Sol C. Chaikin meets with visiting trade unionists, who come mainly from Africa and Latin America, 5/15/77; ILG's Henoch Mendelsund took an active role in the deliberations of the International Labor Organization's Conference with R.S. Milne, ILO Secretary General, and J Reynaut, Deputy Secretary General, Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 1980; Polish strikers hoist strike leader Lech Walesa on their shoulders at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, Oct. 1980; The ILGWU delegation joined with the American Federation of Teachers, Social Democrats USA, and other groups at a reception honoring AFL-CIO European Representative Irving Brown, with SOUSA Executive Director Rita Freedman, President Chaikin, A. Philip Randolph Institute Chairman Bayard Rustin (who's also SD National Chairman), Brown, and AFT President Albert Shanker, 11/17/81; VP Edward Schneider, Director of International Relations Department, greets delegation of visiting trade unionists, Oct. 1981; President Sol C. Chaikin was at head of march during a demonstration part of worldwide show of support for solidarity unionists, with Irena Kirkland, wife of AFL-CIO President, and ILGWU Legislative Director Evelyn Dubrow, Washington, DC, 12/30/81; Town East Garment Factory Ltd., Jan. 1983