April, 1943, 1943

The fight against the Cannon Bill may best be followed in Mitchell's letters to Norman Thomas (2) and J.G. Luhrsen, Executive Secretary of the Railway Labor Executives' Association (9), as well as in his lengthy reports to the GEC on his lobbying efforts in Washington (15,22). Various unions and liberal organizations wrote toward the beginning of the month, giving their positions on the bill. After the bill passed the Senate, Mitchell and Norman Thomas sent communications to the President urging him to veto the measure (17,19). There is also a report of a conference with lawyer K.T. Sutton on the STFU Legal Program (9)