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that we appoint this committee. I suggested that Henry Bruere be the Chairman. I suggested him because of the fact that he had previously, under Mayor Mitchel, made a study of unemployment problems when we were in a big unemployment period at that time. I knew, therefore, that he'd done a lot of reading on the subject. He had some definite knowledge of what you begin to look for and had some ideas of what the connection was between the business cycle and the financial situation and the consumer market, and so forth. He also had some rudimentary ideas of what you do to relieve it.

John Sullivan was on the committee, as was Maxwell Wheeler of Buffalo, who was president of the Associated Industries and head of the Larkin Company and Gerard Swope of General Electric. There were a number of other people on it, whom at the moment I can't recall.

Bruere's idea was, and I agreed with him, that we shouldn't make too elaborate and scholarly a study, but should study what the incidence of unemployment was throughout the state and where it was worse. We should devise some recommendations of things to do at once. We wanted to put things into operation. Bruere had seen the business of studying go on with nothing happening to the unemployed. He thought that was hazardous.