Correspondence, 1937

9/1/37-9/29/37; Correspondence relating to A.F.of L.- C.I.O conflict from Saposs and Hope; from Madden and Burke concerning anti-NLRB sentiment and propaganda, and from D.L. Kelly (W.Va. Representative, National Electric Products Corp.) to the President as well as a reply from James Roosevelt (Secretary to the President); from Joseph P. Ryan (President, International Longshoremen's Association) to the President about Edwin S. Smith; the Republic Steel strike and Steelworkers Organizing Committee (SWOC); the Cudahy Packing Co. case XVII-R-17 and violations of Sec. 8(2); narrative account of hearing in the Newport News Shipping & Dry Dock Co. case; Saposs' analysis of respondent's presentation on written, signed agreements in the Inland case; R.D. Stevenson's account of employer intimidation and discriminatory discharge in the Seagrove Corp. case; new hearing suggested in the Montgomery Wards and Co. cases; John T. Lindsay`s discussion of evidence by inference with regard to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co case.; Jacob Billikopf's (Executive Director, National Coordinating Committee for Aid to Refugees and Emigrants Coming from Germany) opposition to the popular sentiment that sees the NLRB as persecuting industry; Blankenhorn's discussion of the following: Lewis' political position; requests for information on vigilantism, espoinage and company unions, and the LaFollette hearings, specifically Officials of the Railway Act and the Pinkertons; A.B. Hawes' (Actg. Asst. General Counsel) recommendation of a "write in" space on the ballot; Fahy's refusal to take jurisdiction of cases involving the repair or building of highways used in interstate travel or transportation; Edwin S. Smith's description of the Philadelphia office as "perfect chaos".