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was, however, one of the first things he did. The Industrial Commission had been reorganized by Nathan Miller into the Industrial Board, a cuasi-judicial body and an Industrial Commission whose duties were entirely administrative. It provided that the Board must be bipartisan. It had three members only, not five. John Higgins of Oswego was the Chairman. Richard H. Curran was the other member. He was a Republican labor man from upstate. I had known him for a long time as a labor man. I had been at the AF of L State Federations conventions where he had always made a good speech. He came from Rochester. I forget his union. He was a very sick man. He was diabetic. He was one of these gentlemanly looking fellows who was always well dressed. We used to say that he was a typical Republican labor man. That's what the other labor men used to say. He was a good scout. He meant to do the right thing. He wasn't very bright, but he meant to do the right thing. If you told him what the right thing was, he'd do it with a vengeance - he'd really do it. Being a Republican didn't get in his way when it came to doing the right thing by a labor man or a labor matter. He never could think of the right thing to do by himself.

Higgins was such a nice man - a wonderful fellow. He was the Oswego Starch Company. He not only was of that family, but he had married into that family. He was of a