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everybody would be arrested who didn't have it, that it was a serious violation not to carry it. Then we began arresting them. Because we didn't have enough inspectors to put all over the state we took it town by town and threw in extra inspectors for that period. Every employer had been warned individually. Then if we found them without the policy of workmen's compensation, we just haled them in, arrested them and brought them to court. It was terrific. When we got to New York City we had a terrific number of such cases.

It wasn't really political dynamite. You couldn't find anybody in the Legislature, or anywhere else, who believed that an employer should be without workmen's compensation insurance. There's no support for that. You occasionally, of course, got a call from a local ward politician who said, “Look here, you can't do that. Let my man John Jones off. He didn't mean any harm. He forgot about it.” I never heard anybody say that he ought to be left off because he didn't have to have it. It was always that he had forgotten about it, or it had lapsed, or he meant to, or he wasn't really in business.

We didn't have any trouble with Tammany Hall. Tammany Hall is not a bad outfit. At least, it wasn't in those days. They're not lily-white, but they are generally humane fellows. They feel sorry for the poor. I never met anybody in Tammany