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Hall who would ask you to do anything that was going to be dangerous to life, limb and safety. I think there were two things involved in that. First, they were pretty sure I wasn't going to do such things. Second, they knew that Governor Smith and Governor Roosevelt supported me. Whenever they went to Smith, he'd say, “Well, I guess you'll have to do what she says.” Smith, himself, never, in all the years, raised a question and asked me to let off on somebody because some leader had come to see him - never. Roosevelt never did that either. It wasn't that I didn't hear from them about cases, that I didn't get told, “See here, Jones was up here and he thinks ‘So-and-So' is having it bad. He thinks he got a raw deal from the factory inspector. Would you look into it?” I never got more than, “Would you look into it to see if the factory inspector isn't just running him for the fun of running him.” They would always go and say, “The factory inspector has it in for me. He's making up these things.”

I would say, “Certainly I'll go and look into it and I'm glad for the tip.” I recognized that factory inspectors are sometimes abusive. They'll work out their spite on some individual. Of course, every now and then there is a factory inspector who's looking for a shakedown. He'll throw a heavy





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