Dear Lew: Of course, when I see you, I shall want to talk to you at length about Taft-Hartley. From your letter you seem to think that we have made enormous changes in it. Actually they seem to us to be very mild.1
With respect to two of the amendments recommended, I would be disappointed if they were not enacted because I promised during the political campaign to work for them. They relate to the Communist oath and to the period after they have gone on strike during which the members of a union can still vote on the question of representation.2
All the others were brought up by people who have lived with this matter far more intimately than I have.
As I read your original letter, I thought your basic contention was that some new definition of "interstate commerce" should be sought legislatively. I have had this subject under study ever since you wrote the letter. While I doubt that I shall have an opportunity to bring it up during this session of Congress, I am by no means forgetting the matter.3
With warm personal regard, Sincerely
