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Letter with attached newspaper clipping: "Germany Is Too Easy on Jews, Goebbels Asks Stronger Attack" reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and written in Cologne on April 25 [1933?]. Source publication of clipping unknown.

In this “Personally Written” letter to Perkins, the Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Caldwell, New Jersey, asks “Why have you stopped alien deportations?” calling for her to give a “full biographical statement,” and asking “Why is your…

An anonymous letter to Perkins concerning antisemitism and the whispering campaign against her, sent “from one who knows.”

George Rosenberger wrote to then Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins to express his opinion that Emma Goldman should not be allowed into the United States.

A telegram in favor of extending Emma Goldman's visa, signed by many members of the University of Chicago faculty and religious leaders around Chicago. The name of Edith Abbott, professor at the School of Social Administration at the University of…

Bailey telegram to FDR

FDR memo to Frances Perkins re Bailey tel.

State Council of Maryland letter to FDR

FDR letter to Frances Perkins re State Council of Maryland

This was the Secretary of Labor’s statement on the meeting of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations officials.

Frances Perkins statement on CIO-AFL meeting

FDR speech by Frances Perkins on Industry & Labor

FDR letter to Frances Perkins re Comm on Eco Security

Proposed speech for FDR

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…

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…

In this statement, Perkins makes clear the position of the government that strikes are “not a blow or a threat to organized government,” that they are instead “an economic tool or method of workers to insure that their employers agree to carry out…

Statement on the death of President Franklin Roosevelt, written by his Labor of Secretary and personal friend Frances Perkins. Frances Perkins wrote: “We in the Department of labor have a feeling of keen and personal sadness for we, with our hands…

With Frances Perkins initials at end

Copy of Telegram to Boston Globe