Box 7

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Correspondence and flyers related to boycott of toys made in China; sponsored by AFL-CIO and Frontlash, Youth and Labor Working Together

Scope and Contents Materials related to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing; report of official U.S Preparatory Meeting for the U.N. Fourth World Conference (convened by the U.S. Department of State and others), April 22, 1994; related materials: conference program; “A Working Women’s Guide to Her Job Rights,” U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau, August 1992; Women’s Bureau fact sheets, Facts on Working Women, 1993; printed U.N. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of...

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Agenda, minutes, and related materials for meeting of January 23, 1992, re forced labor; biographical description and statement of brothers Li Lin and Li Zhi; letter from President Carter welcoming the Li borthers to the U.S., January 8, 1992; AFL-CIO Committee on China “Report on China since Tiananmen Square,” delivered to the Executive Council on February 20, 1990; handwritten notes

Scope and Contents See also Committee on China – Report 1990 Urgent memo to Mazur and vp Susan Cowell from ILGWU International Relations Director Michele Briones re AFL-CIO Committee Report on China noting that she disagreed with draft, recommending inclusion of an alternative writeup of presentation by representative from Beijing Workers Autonomous Federation; first and second draft reports of October 18, 1990, meeting and report to the AFL-CIO Executive Council; final draft (?) of Subcommittee on China...

Scope and Contents Cover letter to Mazur from director of the Gulag Committee, welcoming him as a member, noting effectiveness of raising issue of prisoners when traveling to China, noting enclosed materials: report by the Gulag Committee, “Workers and Peasants Imprisoned by the Chinese Government,” profiling individual prisoners, July 8, 1991; report, “Rough Justice in Beijing: Punishing the ‘Black Hands’ of Tiananmen Square,” by Asia Watch, a committee of Human Rights Watch, January 27, 1991; New York Times...

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See also Chnia – Han Dongfang 1992 Resume of Joy Chen Yu Lewis of Asia Watch (Human Rights Watch); notes by Lewis from a meeting with AFFLI (AFL-CIO Asian-American Free Labor Institute?) representative Mark Hankin re projects documenting repression of Chinese workers, September 4, 1991; related correspondence

Scope and Contents Letter to N.Y. Building and Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO, from Rep. Gerald Solomon noting that House of Representatives approved his resolution denying Most Favored Nation status to China, with attached newspaper clipping, October 22, 1990; letter and materials from Hong Kong Trade Union Education Centre, July 21, 1990; letter from Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars (IFCSS), formed in reponse to the Tiananmen Square killings, July 18; draft of letter by AFL-CIO...