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and honest. He really knew more about what was going on among the unemployed than anybody else did, so that his reports to Mayor Mitchel and Henry Bruere were realistic. It's my impression that Paul Kenne dy wrote, most of it with his own hands, a report on the Mayor's Committee on Unemployment, which Henry Bruere signed as City Chairman. Henry participated in it, he signed it and it was his report, but Paul Kennedy was his general right-hand man.

Paul Kennedy was in the field of legislation before I ever came to New York. He was a good ten to fifteen years older than I was. He was in the older group, though I don't know exactly how much older. He hadn't married then, I know. He married rather later - a very nice woman. He was sort of everyone's beau in this field of interest.

He knew a great many of the people who were at the heads of labor unions. I wouldn't be at all surprised if I wasn't introduced to the first people I knew in that field by Paul Kennedy, because in the Consumers' League I worked with him. There was a natural liaison between the American Association for Labor Legislation and the Consumers' League. We were interested in special labor legislation. They were interested in all labor legislation. They, of course, took the lead in the development of workmen's compensation legislation in this country, and should be credited with really all the





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