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The Consumers' League had many friends in the Legislature and of course had a lot of friends that we had made in putting through the 54-Hour Bill. Nothing succeeds like success. We had won, so we were okay. We had made friends.

We got that commission though. I look at it now as a method that should be used oftener. It provided that there should be a commission on which there should be persons appointed by the Speaker of the Assembly, persons appointed by the Chairman of the Senate, and persons appointed by the Governor; in addition there should be a number of persons chosen by the Governor from among the citizens generally. So we had the three parts of the government and citizens in general on the same commission. It proved to be admirable. Those of course were the days in which, by pure chance, Alfred E. Smith happened to be the Speaker of the House. Robert F. Wagner was the majority leader of the Senate and he appointed himself and some others on the committee. We had both Republicans and Democrats on the committee. The Governor was of the same persuasion politically as Smith and Wagner - John A. Dix. He therefore appointed the persons we recommended; when I say “we” I mean a few of us who were heads of social agencies in consultation with Wagner and Smith, whom we knew well. Therefore we had a good group of people.