Letter from Rolland Damm to President Harry S. Truman with Related Material

rwc February 23, 1952 Stechman FILED BY Respectfully referred to Dr. Steelman DR. STEELMAN WILLIAM D. HASSETT Steeling D Secretary to the President JUL 2 9 1952 Letters to the President: JOHNSON, Russell S., 1621 E. Blackthorne, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, dated 2/18/52. The writer is opposed to an increase in wages for steel workers. States that the President's approval makes him doubt his sincerity. Chairman, Philantropical Funds Foundation of America. HOUCHINS, C. Ted,/Hinton, West Virginia, dated 2/18/52. The writer has been in politics all of his life and due to the fact that he has been a Brotherhood of Railroad Trainman, he can understand how Labor Organ- izations feel about the Democratic Policy of supporting Capital through Railroad Management. He has been employed by the National Production Authority and the Defense Transport Administration but he never received his appointment with the latter due to his Brother- hood interests. He is a candidate, without opposition, for election for Member of the Democratic Congressional Committee. Requests to be made Consultant to Hon. Maurice J. Tobin, Secretary of Labor in settlement of forty hour week and other greviences in reference to Railroad Labor Organizations. Requests personal interview. Hopes that the President has a successful Presidential Campaign. LACY, James F., Jr. 3217 Schieffer Avenue, Fort Worth 10, Texas, dated 2/18/52. The writer requests to know what action, if any, has been taken concerning the Wage and Rules controversy of the Three Operating Brotherhoods with the Nation's Railroads. States that the outcome of this dispute will help determine who will be the next President. McDONALD, Philip, Secretary-Treasurer, International Association of Machinists Affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, District Lodge No. 38, 5 Park Square Rooms 33,34,35, Boston 16, Massachusetts, dated 2/21/52. Requests the President to notify the Government of Iceland that this country does not consider tuna canned in any substance to come within the scope of United States Tariff Act of 1930, paragraph 718(b), as amended and listed in Schedule II of the Trade Agreement between the United States and Iceland of 1943, and that no canned tuna in any form will be covered by the tariff applying to com- modities covered by that paragraph. HOFFMAN, F. C., 207 3rd Street, Bemidjl, Minnesota, dated 2/21/52. The write requests the President to take immediate steps to enforce the Pres- idental Order banning airplanes in the Minnesota Roadless Wild- erness Area which is within the Quetico-Superior National Forest, effective 1/1/52. Letters to the President opposing an increase in wages in the Steel Industry: DAMM, Rolland, 629-643 Ottawa Street, Muskegon, Michigan, dated 2/16/52. STRAHAN, John W., 79 Halsey Street, Newark 2, New Jersey, dated 2/14/52. MARTIN, H. L., 608 College Avenue, Fostoria, Ohio, dated 2/15/52. MOLITORE, Edward, 142 Oakland Street, Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts dated 2/15/52.