Correspondence, 1936

7/1/36-9/30/36; Correspondence from Herber Blankenhorn and J. Warren Madden to the Board, Robert LaFollette, regional officers, and Harold Cranefield concerning the LaFollette Investigation, includes a summary of the plan of investigation adopted by the Senate sub-committee, and a list of subpoenas served, as well as reports from investigators in cities; from John J. Babe (attorney) to Hon. John J. Parker (Chief Judge, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) on the question of the separability of the National Labor Relations Act; Edwin S. Smith's and Charles H. Logan's (Director, Region 15) discussion of Mr. Ryan; from Charles Fahy to John J. Parker, Elliott Northcott, Morris A. Soper (Judges, U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals) concerning the NLRB versus Washington, Virginia and Maryland Coach Co.; correspondence regarding Mercer Evans and Rev. Francis J. Haas as successors to John Carmody; correspondence concerning the RCA and the Virginia Railway case, specifically the enforcement of the Byrnes Act; from Madden to Harwood L. Childs (Managing Editor, Public Opinion Quarterly) responding to a prospectus of the publication; A. Howard Myers' (Director, Region 1) and Madden's discussion of the Federal Shoe Co. case and the Clark & Reid case C-128; significant correspondence concerning interstate commerce, includes memos from Nathan Witt to Madden, Carmody and Fahy with attached drafts of "Employees Directly Engaged in Interstate Commerce or Whose Activities Directly Affect Commerce" and the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana Case; from Gerhard Van Arkel to Fahy about the Fruehauf Trailer Co. case C-II and the effect of issuance of mandate on appeal by certiorari; correspondence relating to the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Co. case, C-91; from Adolphus Andrews (Acting Sec. of the Navy) to Edwin S. Smith concerning the Wheeling Steel Corporation, and stating that the Navy does not discriminate against a contractor who fails to comply with the NLRA; from Beatrice M. Stern (Assistant Secretary, NLRB) to Captain H. E. Collins (Procurement Division, U.S. Treasury) about the International Filter Co., and the Treasury's judgement in awarding it a contract; correspondence concerning the International Merchantile Marine case R-24; correspondence regarding the Sailors' Union of the Pacific (SUP)-ISU controversy, includes a letter from Benedict Wolf to Aaron Sapiro stating that the Board will not take jurisdiction over conflicts between unions that are part of the same organization; from Philip Levy to Madden summarizing William Leiserson's talk on the effect of pre-existing agreements on Representation Disputes under the Railway Labor Act; from Wolf to E.S. Neal about the American Potash Co. C-127; significant correspondence concerning the William Randolph Hearst (Post-Intelligencer XIX-C-42) case includes discussion of strategy for Seattle hearings that will make it an interstate commerce case; letter from J. Warren Madden to the President concerning Edwin S. Smith; from Mortimer Kollender to Charles Fahy in regard to the Atlanta Woolen Mills case; from Howard Myers to Madden asking permission to publish his manuscript on the NLRA; from Charles Fahy to all attorneys on the status of litigation; from Baldwin B. Bane (Director, Registration Division) to Madden on Remington Rand Inc. File no. 2-2480; from Fahy to David Moscovits in regard to the Mackay Radio case and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.