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done a lot. I took your hint. I don't think all the opposition that was going around about this bill will be present now.”

He said, “Well, perhaps. Anyhow, I noticed you stuck around all summer even though I told you to go on to Europe.”

I said, “Yes, I did, because I thought there might just be a chance.”

“Well,” he said, “there wasn't any chance. I told you the truth, but you didn't lose anything by staying around. You made friends up here because they all knew that you were staying around when it was hopeless, that you weren't going to give up. I saw myself that you were determined and that there wasn't anything you wouldn't do to get it through, and the others all noticed it. We all know you. You worked here in hot weather and away from home. That's all right; they know you mean business, so they'll listen to you more than they used to.”

He gave me what I needed at that time in the way of information. Anyhow we worked away at it. Of course that bill had a very curious history because although the Democratic party had passed a plank in its platform about it, Al was now speaker, and Wagner had come into a good deal of prominence, it was difficult to pass. I remember people like Paul Kennedy and the American Association for Labor