Contains convention and conference programs, budgets, reports, registration material, agendas, minutes, rosters, newsletters, correspondence, delegate selection documents, articles of incorporation, constitution and by-laws, memos, Quan’s notes, and press materials. The National Founding Convention files contain a significant amount of pre-founding material from when the Ad Hoc Committee of San Francisco Asian American trade union officers was creating an Asian Pacific American labor support group, sometimes called the Asian Pacific American Labor Committee. These pre-founding files contain documents on the AFL-CIO initiative to form a National Asian Pacific American Labor organization, the outlines of the organization and how it will be established, notes on putting together a National Steering Committee, and the process of planning a founding convention. The New York National Convention files include material on APALA’s response to proposed immigration reform legislation that would introduce cuts in legal immigration. The San Francisco National Convention files include a proposed organizing curriculum and a resources guide to rebuilding the labor movement.