Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. October 17, 1945 CO SUMMARY 2:48 PM CLEM CLARDY to TOM CORCORAN. CORCORAN said he was still looking for (CARL) MORAN (of Labor Department) for POLLARD, and will have him soon. CLEM said he and POLLARD saw MORAN at a Rotary luncheon with (LEWIS) SCHWELLENBACH and met him but didn't say anything. CLEM said to tell MORAN that POLLARD has met (PHILLIP) MURRAY but he wants to meet (JOHN L.) LEWIS and (WILLIAM) GREEN. 2:55 PM CARL MORAN, in Labor Department to TOM CORCORAN. CORCORAN thanked CARL for his help yesterday on the Illinois Glass case, and said, "I think we got somewhere. WARREN went through and boy, I asked for a showdown--asked for a strike vote and find out what the hell." MORAN said the time for the conciliators to move in is before the strike is taken. CORCORAN then said that another client of his, the Ray-O-Vac Company, in Wisconsin, may soon have labor trouble. It made batteries for U. S. government. In charge of their labor relations is a former Navy captain named LESLIE POLLARD. CORCORAN said he would like to have MORAN see POLLARD and give POLLARD a letter to introduce him to LEWIS and GREEN so that POLLARD can "see that these terrible people called LEWIS and GREEN, in the flesh, aren't such bad guys. I've got a clean sheet to write on in this guy (POLLARD) and I want to start right. I want them to be people to him and not something he reads about in a newspaper. And I think that is an act of conciliation before you ever need it." MORAN agreed and said he could see him at 10 AM tomorrow. CORCORAN said this move "may save you a hell of a lot of trouble later on." 3:55 PM Mr. ED WHEELER to TOM CORCORAN asking for appointment today. CORCORAN is too busy and asks that ED come over in the morning to see him. O.K. CORCORAN asked, "Is everything all right at the Navy?" (Re Navy discharge for ED WHEELER.) ED said he hadn't heard anything further about it, and CORCORAN said, "O.K., then, nothing is breaking there." ED qualified his statement by saying, "Only this, that father (Senator WHEELER) hasn't heard from the, one who was supposed to call him, or he thought he might call him, that I spoke to you about and he's getting a little anxious." CORCORAN will see him tomorrow at 10 AM. 5:30 PM HOWARD CORCORAN to TOM CORCORAN at latter's home. TOM asked him how he came out about straightening out his Army discharge. HOWIE said he saw a cable sent by Army authorities to the theater commander in Germany direct- ing "the other headquarters to change the leave orders to give me terminal leave." TOM asked, "Now what did you say to BEN (COHEN of the State De- partment)?! HOWIE said, "We just horsed around a bit and BEN said it was all wide open, if I wanted it but he didn't have any particular suggestions at the moment." TOM said, "What would you do (in the State Department) if you wanted it?" HOWIE stated, "Well, that's what BEN said. He didn't know at the moment and he wanted to look around before he advised me. He said he didn't know the setup on the Rio (de Janeiro) thing and he didn't