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To: Ramsey Su who wrote ()5/14/2000 12:45:00 PM
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NY Times, May 14, 2000
nytimes.com
Labor Leaders Lobby Fiercely to Kill the China Trade Bill
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
WASHINGTON, May 13 -- The American labor movement is mounting its biggest lobbying campaign ever on trade
matters in seeking to defeat the Clinton administration's drive to normalize commerce with China. Unions are holding dozens
of meetings on Capitol Hill, putting intense pressure on individual legislators back in their districts, staging rallies and writing
huge numbers of letters across the nation.

With the House scheduled to vote on the China trade bill the week after next, organized labor is struggling to counter the
intense lobbying of the administration and business groups, with some labor leaders believing that their efforts will succeed in
defeating the measure.

The members of a single union -- the Steelworkers -- have written more than 200,000 letters urging House members to
oppose the bill, which would grant China permanent normal trade relations and pave its way into the World Trade
Organization.

Acknowledging that the House vote is too close to call, John J. Sweeney, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s president, has cleared much
of his schedule to hold one-on-one meetings with House members as well as sessions with moderate Republicans, the
Congressional Black Caucus and the New York Congressional delegation.
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