Correspondence, 1936

10/29/36-12/29/36; Correspondence relating to the LaFollette Committee Investigation, subjects discussed include: administrative issues, terms of cooperation with other government agencies, reaction to the LaFollette Investigation at the New York Democratic State Convention, the Black Legion and Virgil F. Effinger, information to be used for testimony on vigilantism, legal tactics to stall the LaFollette Investigation, the Tampa (A.F.of L.) Convention and a $200,000 appropriation; from Jerome I. Macht to J. Warren Madden on freedom of speech; from Philip Levy to Madden regarding the NLRA, the Railway Labor Act and the Texas Case, and Circuit Courts of Appeals Decisions on Constitutionality of the Act; from Beatrice Stern to C.A. Wood on Grace Line Seas Shipping Company hearing of 10/13/36; from Benedict Wolf about Teamsters organizing in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Milwaukee; Fahy on the status of Supreme Court litigation; Wolf's report on labor situations in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Cincinnati, subjects discussed include the maritime labor situation, A.F.of L.-C.I.O. confilct demonstrated by the Sawmill Workers' Union, and the San Francisco Chronicle`s coverage of the lettuce strike; Charlton Ogburn's and the President`s letters concerning his legislative program; argument in the Jones and Laughlin case (13pp); Philip Levy's conversation with Solicitor General Reed; Fahy's discussion of the status of Board cases in the Supreme Court and in the Circuit Courts; from J. Warren Madden to Charles H. Logan comparing the NLRA to the Railway Labor Act; from Fahy to Edwin S. Smith on injunctions; from Levy to Madden on congressional intention to apply the Act to production employees (7pp); Wolf's letter to the Civil Service Commission claiming the Secretary of the Board has direct supervision of trial examiners; letter from A.J. Wirin to Sidney Hillman; Charles Fahy's discussion of Supreme Court arguments, cases discussed include: Jones and Laughlin, Friedman-Harry Marks and Fruehauf; report from the Board to all attorneys, regional directors and trial examiners on investigations under Sec.9c, including elections, involving maritime workers (7pp); Edwin S. Smith's "suggested amendment of the National Labor Relations Act to provide for mediation in the maritime industry"; Wolf's request that speeches by regional directors be previewed by the Board; from Joseph Rosenfarb to the Board on state labor relations acts; from Blankenhorn to Madden on the following subjects: meeting Senator Guffey, the Carnegie-Illinois hearing, the Sun Shipyard Strike in Chester, PA; letter from William Green to Daniel J. Tobin (General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters) concerning the Longshoremen's situation; Charlton Ogburn and Stanley Reed (Solicitor General) letters relating to the Washington, Virginia & Maryland Coach Co. case; from E.S. Neal (Region 20) to Wolf about the Salinas Lettuce Workers; Robert Watts'suggested 10 point amendment to the Act; Elinore Herrick's request to leave to investigate causes of the Spanish Civil War; Charles Hope's discussion of William H. Crawford; to all staff members defining subpoena, and discussing credentials and procedure.