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In this Wheeler agreed with him completely. I'm not sure whether there was a committee already in existence in Buffalo or not, but he knew that there was some unemployment in Buffalo. It wasn't a catastrophe by this time, but there was a little shortening-up of hours, a little laying-off. He was aware of that.

Everybody was agreed that the thing to do was to get recommendations together rather quickly and have them very, very practical. The theoretical things to be done, such as the shortening of hours, unemployment insurance, prohibition of the labor of children, and that type of thing, were all regarded as theory. You had to have law or government action in order to do that, but there were certain relief things that could be done before you came to that.

I kept this committee alive. Things like that don't just happen. You suggest it to the Governor and you tell him who to appoint. I picked all the members. I persuaded them to serve. I don't remember whether I had myself appointed ex officio member of not, but if I didn't, I was anyhow. They never met except in our office or places provided by me. I kept it alive. I provided all the clerical and research assistants, all the investigation assistants. The people who made the investigations were employees of the Labor