ROBERT S. KERR COLLECTION
LEGISLATIVE SERIES
Box and Folder Inventory

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Box 29: Southwestern Power Administration (1949) -- Tariff and Trade (1955).

F 1: Southwestern Power Administration (1949-1950).

Copy of agreement for construction and lease of electric transmission facilities between United States and Western Electric Cooperative; address of Douglas G. Wright at convention of Oklahoma Statewide Electric Cooperative.

F 2: Southwestern Power Administration (1951).

SPA appropriations; SPA continuing fund; Southeastern Power Administration continuing fund; preliminary draft of agreement between SPA and electric companies; information on areas served through agreements between SPA and electric companies; Keating Amendment. Correspondents include: Douglas G. Wright; American Public Power Association.

F 3: Southwestern Power Administration, Statements and Addresses (1951).

Statement of L. R. Burrow, manager of Western Electric Cooperative, before Interior Subcommittee of Senate Appropriations Committee; statement of Kerr before Interior Subcommittee; statement on amendments to Interior Department Appropriations Bill (H.R. 3790); address by Francis B. McManus of SPA before Missouri cooperative; address of Karl V. Wright of SPA before Southeastern Electric Cooperative in Durant, Oklahoma; statement on SPA continuing fund; transcript of radio program on KRMG in Tulsa featuring Douglas G. Wright and Wendell Barnes; address of Kerr before convention of Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association.

F 4: Southwestern Power Administration (1952).

Electric service for Anadarko, Oklahoma; information on legal proceedings involving SPA; analysis of revenue to be derived by the government from sale of SPA power; draft of agreement between SPA and electric companies. Correspondents include: Douglas G. Wright.

F 5: Southwestern Power Administration, Appropriations (1952).

SPA continuing fund; SPA appropriations; copy of H.R. 7176 (Interior Department appropriations); proposed amendment to H.R. 7176; House and Senate Reports on H.R. 7176; Public Law 82-470 (H.R. 7176).

F 6: Southwestern Power Administration, Cost Analysis (1952).

Revised Cost Analysis of Southwestern Power Administration's Proposed Operations, 1952-1958; statistics on SPA revenue.

F 7: Southwestern Power Administration, Statements (1952).

Statements of L. R. Burrow (manager of Western Electric Cooperative), Carl J. Mason (vice president of Missouri Public Service Company), D. C. McKee (president of Empire District Electric Company), Doyle Pope (Norman area farmer), Frank M. Wilkes, Lloyd Evans (of KAMO Electric Cooperative), and Ernest C. Wood (chairman of Advisory Committee on Power for the Southwest) before Interior Subcommittee of Senate Appropriations Committee; statement of Douglas G. Wright; statement of principles from Electric Consumers Conference.

F 8: Southwestern Power Administration (1953-1955).

SPA continuing fund; SPA contract with Western Electric Cooperative; administration's policies and attitude toward SPA; leasing of office space in Muskogee; SPA contracts with generating and transmitting cooperatives. Correspondents include: Carl Albert.

F 9: Taft-Hartley Act, Correspondence (n.d., 1948).

Correspondence concerning the possible revision or repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act.

F 10: Taft-Hartley Act, Correspondence (Jan. 1949).

Correspondence concerning the possible revision or repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Correspondents include: Southern Pine Industry Committee; Oklahoma State Typographical Conference; International Association of Machinists; American Council of Christian Churches; Southern States Industrial Council.

F 11: Taft-Hartley Act, Correspondence (Feb. 1-10, 1949).

Correspondence concerning the possible revision or repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Correspondents include: State Bar of Michigan; Southern States Industrial Council.

F 12: Taft-Hartley Act, Correspondence (Feb. 11-28, 1949).

Correspondence concerning the possible revision or repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act; "Statement of General Motors Position on Unionization of Foremen"; copy of letter from J. G. Puterbaugh to Carl Albert. Correspondents include: International Typographical Union; General Motors Corporation; Inland Daily Press Association; National Small Business Men's Association.

F 13: Taft-Hartley Act, Correspondence (Mar. 1949).

Correspondence concerning the possible revision or repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act; copy of letter from J. G. Puterbaugh to Elmer Thomas. Correspondents include: American Cotton Manufacturers Association; National Lawyers Guild; New York Board of Trade; Southern States Industrial Council; General Electric Company.

F 14: Taft-Hartley Act, Correspondence (Apr. 1949).

Correspondence concerning the possible revision or repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Correspondents include: Textile Workers Union of America; National Religion and Labor Foundation; St. John's Hospital in Tulsa.

F 15: Taft-Hartley Act, Correspondence (May - June 1949).

Correspondence concerning the possible revision or repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act; copy of letter from J. G. Puterbaugh to National Coal Association. Correspondents include: American Federation of Labor; Textile Workers Union of America; Cecil B. deMille; Oklahoma State Industrial Union Council; John Taylor (president of Oklahoma Farm Bureau); Oklahoma State Cotton Exchange; Southern States Industrial Council; National Cotton Council; John L. Lewis; Philip Murray, president of the CIO.

F 16: Taft-Hartley Act, Correspondence (July 1949 - July 1950).

Correspondence concerning the possible revision or repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. Correspondents include: J. G. Puterbaugh; Southern Pine Industry Committee.

F 17: Taft-Hartley Act, Printed Material (1949).

Various publications about the possible revision or repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and possible reenactment of the Wagner Act from groups including National Small Business Men's Association, International Typographical Union, National Lawyers Guild, Shipbuilders Council of America, and New York Board of Trade.

F 18: Taft-Hartley Act, Statements, Petitions, and Legislation (1949).

Minority views on National Labor Relations Act of 1949 (S. 249); copy of H.R. 4914, a bill to repeal the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947; proposed amendments to Taft-Hartley Act; petitions; extract from remarks of Paul H. Douglas; various statements, including statements before congressional committees.. Correspondents include: Andrew Jacobs.

F 19: Taft-Hartley Act (1952-1953).

Correspondence concerning possible amendments to the Taft-Hartley Act; several newspaper clippings. Correspondents include: Clark Clifford; John Frank of Frankoma Pottery.

F 20: Taft-Hartley Act (1955).

Correspondence concerning S. 1269, amending the Taft-Hartley Act, and S. 1285 and H.R. 4566 (Fogarty-Clements Bill), amending the Davis-Bacon Act.

F 21: Taft-Hartley Act (1961).

Correspondence concerning proposed amendments to the Taft-Hartley Act, including amendments that would repeal the provision allowing states to adopt right-to-work laws.

F 22: Tariff and Trade (1950, 1952).

Duties on imported items of value up to $10; tariffs on fats and oils; tariffs on candy; tariffs on tuna fish; importation and inspection of plants; Customs Simplification Bill. Correspondents include: Hugh Butler; William F. Knowland; American Association of Nurserymen; League of Women Voters of the United States; Karl E. Mundt.

F 23: Tariff and Trade (1953-1954).

Duties on briar pipes; Trade Agreements Extension Act; tariffs on agricultural items; tariffs on wool; duties on metal scrap; copies of letters from Conference of Western Senators to Dwight D. Eisenhower re: tariffs on lead and zinc; Tariff Commission investigation on imported products; booklet on reciprocal tariff negotiations with Japan. Correspondents include: Warren G. Magnuson; National Wool Growers Association; A. Willis Robertson; George W. Malone; James E. Murray; Karl E. Mundt; Pat McCarran.

F 24: Tariff and Trade, Reciprocal Trade Agreement, Correspondence, In-State (Jan. - Feb. 1955).

Renewal and modification of Trade Agreements Act; copy of H.R. 1, an act to extend the authority of the president to enter into trade agreements under section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930; Curtis Amendment. Correspondents include: League of Women Voters of Tulsa; League of Women Voters of Oklahoma City; League of Women Voters of Norman; League of Women Voters of Oklahoma; Tulsa Trades Council; Henryetta Chamber of Commerce; Independent Petroleum Association of America.

F 25: Tariff and Trade, Reciprocal Trade Agreement, Correspondence, In-State (Mar. 1955).

Renewal and modification of Trade Agreements Act; Neely Amendment; statement of Robert N. Frazer on behalf of American Fluorspar Producers. Correspondents include: Henryetta Chamber of Commerce; League of Women Voters of Oklahoma; Cushing Chamber of Commerce; Democratic County Central Committee of Tulsa County; Frederick Chamber of Commerce.

F 26: Tariff and Trade, Reciprocal Trade Agreement, Correspondence, In-State (Apr. - May 10, 1955).

Renewal and modification of Trade Agreements Act; Neely Amendment and various other amendments. Correspondents include: Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association; League of Women Voters of Norman; Henryetta Chamber of Commerce; H. B. Fell.

F 27: Tariff and Trade, Reciprocal Trade Agreement, Correspondence, In-State (May 11 - Aug. 1955).

Renewal and modification of Trade Agreements Act. Correspondents include: H. B. Fell; Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association.

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