Box 82

Correspondence concerning housing legislation including the extension of rent control, federal housing loans for low-income families, and the establishment of the National Housing Act of 1949.

A letter from the Tribal Council of the Catawba Indian Tribe of Rock Hill, South Carolina, requesting Senator Maybank's support in opposing legislation (S. 17) concerning Indian land patents.

Correspondence concerning interstate commerce legislation including freight rates, a two-year moratorium on the application of antitrust laws to individual, good faith delivered price systems and freight-absorption practices, rules for carriers, railroad regulation, and the investigation of "subversive" textbooks and teaching material.

Correspondence concerning legislation to increase the salary of federal judges and legislation (S.1681) to prohibit picketing outside Federal Courts.

Correspondence concerning labor legislation including unemployment compensation, communist infiltration of labor unions, coal strikes, labor disputes obstructing interstate and foreign commerce, overtime pay, and the meat packing industry.

A substantial amount of correspondence primarily concerned with an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act to provide for an increase in the minimum wage to 75 cents.