Letter to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins on behalf of President Franklin Roosevelt concerning the attached telegram sent to the President
Abstract
Stephen Early, secretary to President Franklin Roosevelt, forwarded to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins a telegram from the passengers of the SS President Hoover. The ship was unable to land in San Francisco due to the Pacific Coast Longshoremen's Strike of 1936. In Early's memo to Perkins, on behalf of the president, Perkins is asked to give the telegram and the situation 'consideration and appr opriate action'.