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Mary Dreier was interested in the trade union movement. She had given herself over to assisting the organization of the shirtwaist workers and defending them when they were arrested. They were arrested when they went on strike. She, her sisters, and everybody she know, was called upon to offer bail. They did in great numbers. She even collected a group of well-to-do ladies whose husbands or fathers were very well placed and sent them out picketing with the girl pickets so that when they arrested Rosie Schneiderman, or some of the others who were picketing, they were also arresting a lady whose father or whose husband would spring to her defense and could get the best legal talent in the city of New York to defend her in the night court.

Mary Dreier was really a very significant figure in the commission. The commission established by legislation was one of the first experiments in the utilization of the volunteer citizen in a governmental project to discover what was wrong and what to do. It was done several times around that period. It ought to be done now (1952), as a matter of fact, in a great many areas. I think if the President is concerned about corruption in the government, which I freely admit is no worse than it is in any other area of society - it just is more conspicuous and more revolting because it is government - he should try to