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work doesn't employ such an awful lot of people on the job and on the project, it gives an enormous amount of incidental employment which is stimulated by the great number of supply contracts and hauling contracts that have to be carried on for a large construction operation. However, the unemployment was all over before we did much about it.

I remember the first thing that Bruere and I did was to take the report of the Mayor's Committee on Unemployment, that had been written at that time and signed by Bruere and others and read it. We distributed copies of it to all the members of the new committee appointed by the Governor at my suggestion. It was a place to begin from. Here was a body of concrete knowledge and observations made by competent people made in a time so recent that both Bruere and I remembered them clearly. I remember Bruere saying, “It's strange how fresh and applicable these ideas still are.” Wheeler said the same thing, “I've never seen this report before, but this is exactly the situation that we're observing in Buffalo, although it hasn't become catastrophic yet.”

They went to work then making studies as to the degree of unemployment that might exist in certain industries to try to determine whether it was spotty by industries, spotty geographically or generalized. We soon discovered that it