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    "ocrText": "TRUMAN\nSeptember 5, 1951\nProfessor Selig Perlman\nSterling Hall\nUniversity of Wisconsin\nMadison, Wisconsin\nDear Selig:\nIt was good to hear from Arnold Steinbach that you are in fine\nform again, and that you made an excellent speech at the recent Federa-\ntion meeting.\nAt the moment the Department is sponsoring, under a Smith-Mundt\ngrant, a nine-week visit in the United States of Benjamin C. Roberts, pro-\nfessor of industrial relations at the School of Economics and Political\nSciences of the University of London. I am enclosing his biography and a\ncopy of the itinerary of his short tour.\nBen is very eager to meet you while in Madison, from September 24\nto September 26, and I am hoping that you will be free to see him, and perhaps\narrange for him to talk with a few other people in his field. He is an\ninteresting and charming, and very able chap, and I know you will enjoy him.\nHe is one of the few Englishmen I know who really understands the American\nlabor movement.\nI hope you can assign the job to someone on your staff to arrange\na program for him. Also, he will need a room at some reasonably priced\nhotel for the nights of September 24 and 25 which, perhaps, your secretary\nmight arrange. If all this meets your convenience, I should appreciate a\nline from you in confirmation that I can shoot along to Ben in San Francisco.\nI have just returned from an inspiring Labor Day celebration at\nMorgantown, West Virginia, where I was one of the speakers. I took full\nadvantage of the invitation by taking my whole family up on Thursday, and\nwe spent a delightful weekend on a lake near the town.\nThe celebration itself was something I had never experienced\nbefore. As you know, of course, Morgantown is in the heart of the soft\ncoal mining area, and people not only remember very vividly the trade union\nbattles of the last 50 years; they are also keenly aware of the remarkable\nchange in the status of the working man in contrast to his position as\nrecently as twenty years ago. After visiting an area of this kind, it is\nnot difficult to understand the trade union power of John L. Lewis."
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