A collection of newsletters, letters, memos, notes, memorandums, telegrams & news clippings. Examples are: Three issues of the Am. Tunaboat Assn., News Letter – No. 1, 2, & 3 (Jan., Feb. & Mar. 1962); 1 letter (12/28/61) from Evelyn Patapow (Secretary General Mgr., Am. Tuna-boat Assn.) & Wilson’s replies (1/2 & 1/5/62) re/ request for copies of “legislation actions affecting commercial fisheries, as introduced in the 1st session of the 87th Congress;” office note (1 page, 3/31/62) re/ fishing vessel inspection, shipping strike, & other information; 1 letter (3/26/62) from Congressman Wilson to Congressman Herbert C. Bonner (Chairman, Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee) & attached copies of Congressman Bonner’s reply (3/29/62) & a five page letter (3/13/62) from August Felando (General Mgr., Am. Tunaboat Assn.) re/ comments on S.2568 regulating U.S. tuna fishermen in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean; 1 copy of “Statement of California Fish Canners Association, Inc. Concerning H.R. 9900 Before the House Ways and Means Committee, April 6, 1962” – testimony by Charles R. Carry, Ex. Dir. of the Assn. (16 pp. & Appendices A-G, & Table 1-3; a small packet of office notes (Ap.-May 1962), 1 Western Union telegram (5/1/62) from August Felando, & Wilson’s reply (5/7/62) re/ the seizure of the tuna boat Lou Jean; Wilson office notes (5/62) & 1 Western Union telegram (5/4/62) from August Felando re/ tuna boat Lou Jean released from El Salvador; 1 news clipping – “Tale of Terror—S.D. Boat Home After Ordeal In El Salvador,” The San Diego Union (5/18/62, a18); a packet of Western Union telegrams (May 3 & 4, 1962) from a number of Tuna boat owners & masters condemning “Salvadorian patrol vessels stopping and boarding and searching our vessel under gunpoint without justification;” 1 letter (6/8/62) from Frederick G. Dutton (Asst. Secretary, Dept. of State) to Wilson & enclosed copies of “Memorandum May 17, 1962 . . . Detention of U.S. Tuna Fishing Boat Lou Jean by Salvadorean Coast Guard” (5 pp.) & 2 pp. of sworn statements/ re/ extensive coverage of this incident in late April 1962; 1 five page letter (6/18/62) signed by representatives of the-- Am. Tunaboat Assn., Fishermen’s Cooperative Assn., CA Fish Canners Assn., Int. Longshore-men’s Union (Local 33), Cannery Workers and Fishermen’s Union, & Seine and Line Fishermen’s Union -- to The Honorable E. L. Martin, Acting Chair-man, Merchant and Fisheries Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Commerce & attached 6 pp. of their “Proposed Amendments to S.2568;” 1 office note (6/23/62) to Leon & attached copy of S.367 In the House of Representatives June 11, 1962 . . . An Act To provide medical care for certain persons engaged on board a vessel in the care, preservatin, or navigation of such vessels (87th Cong., 2nd Sess.) re/ “a bill to benefit small boat owners;” 1 news clipping – “18- Nation Parley On Tuna July 2-14,” Evening Tribune, June 25, 1962, a16; a small collection of letters (May-July 1962) from Congressman Wilson, Frederick G. Dutton (Asst. Secretary, Dept. of State), & Lester Balinger (Secretary, Cannery Workers & Fishermen’s Union) re/ “problems our tuna boats encounter in Latin American waters,” comments on Senate Bill no. 2568, & the concept of what constitues territorial waters; 1 copy of Am. Tunaboat Assn., News Letter (No. 7, July 1962, 21 pages) “RE: S.2568 – Amendment to ‘Tuna Conventions Act of 1950;’” a small packet of corresp. (Mar.-July 1962) from August Felando (General Mgr., Am. Tunaboat Assn.), Congressman Wilson, Dr. Myron D. Miller (Asst. Surgeon General, Chief, Div. of Hospitals, Public Health Service, HEW) re/ discussion on S.367—Marine Hospitalization for Owner-Seamen Aboard Fishing Vessels, use of U.S. Naval Hospital in San Diego & other topics; 1 letter (7/12/62) from August Felando to Wilson re/ “thank you for your action in lending support to the appointment of John Gerald Driscoll, Jr. . . . as a United States Commissioner to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission;” 1 letter (7/19/62) from August Felando to Congressman Wilson & “Enclosure ‘A’ [&] ‘B’ – “RE: H.R. 11921—‘Foreign Assistance Act of 1962’ (S.2996)” re/ his comments on language references “to seizure of property of U.S. citizens . . . etc.;” 1 letter (7/27/62) from Gibbs L. Baker (Attorney at Law) to Congressman Wilson—“Attention: Mr. Leon Parma” re/ S.2568, enclosed copy of a 3 page letter (7/23/62) from Frederick G. Dutton (Asst. Secretary, Dept. of State) to the Honorable Thomas E. Morgan (Chairman, House Committee on Foreign Affairs) and attached copies of pages 3 & 4 of area & population information on Canal Zone, American Samoa & other Pacific islands.