ILGWU. Organizing Department records, 1979-1989.

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ILGWU. Organizing Department records, 1979-1989.

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Arranged alphabetically, these records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed material created or collected by the Organizing Department, and other material relating to its activities between 1961 and 1989. In addition to documeint routine operations of the department, these records also include documentation of efforts to roll back imports, including reports on congressional visits on a resolution on the subject. Also included are monthly reports on organizing activities from joint boards and regional departments, as well as periodic reports submitted by local unions', joint boards', and regional departments' organizing departments to the central organizing department; these reports include names of organizers and shops organized, and descriptions of current, future, and abandoned campaigns that were to be included in the Organizing Department's reports to the General Executive Board.

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