Copy of telegram from President Franklin Roosevelt to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins about Pacific Coast Strike
Abstract
During the Pacific Coast strike of 1934, that began on May 9, Roosevelt was vacationing on the USS Houston, sailing from Norfolk to Hawaii via the Panama Canal. Here he sends Perkins instructions, writing: “If you think advisable you can issue any statement or offer as coming from me or with my approval.� Although there were calls for him to return to Washington, as he notes here, “it is at p resent best for me not to consider change my itinerary.�
