Dear
Art: With respect to the two letters of comment that accompanied your note of September tenth, about the only reply I can make at the moment is that Senator Taft during his lifetime, was my principal adviser on all matters affecting labor.1 The Amendment to which your friends refer was worked out in conferences which were always attended by Senator Taft, as long as he was physically able. He informed me at the last personal meeting I had with him, that he agreed with all Amendments except that he still had reservations on two of them. One of these had to do with secondary boycotts, the other with the old business of state's laws insuring "right to work." He thought that something had to be changed in the law in both instances, but was not exactly sure what was the right thing to do.2
You realize that I am a long ways from Washington and I cannot say for certain that none of the provisions that Senator Taft helped work out, was ever changed. I do know, however, that he was generally in favor of the program of changes that has been under discussion for many, many weeks.
On the other hand, no final or complete conclusion has been reached. All that the Administration is attempting to do is to achieve a program of law--so far as law seems to be necessary or desirable, and constitutional--that will tend to produce a climate of industrial peace.3
I have sent on to Washington the letters from your friends so that they may be considered by the people working on these subjects.4
Please thank your friends for sending their comments to me. As ever
