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was probably generalized. Whereas the steel industry was slackening very much indeed, and that was why Buffalo was so large a problem early - the steel industry was so important there and had so many employees - that showed the falling off of orders for all kinds of things. We now know that if you see steel declining in employment, you can be pretty sure that you'll see a lot of industries that buy steel also declining. Only you wouldn't notice them first. All the machine industries follow along with it, as do all the canning industries and so forth. It's a very interesting relationship.

We decided very early that we must keep this undercover until a little later and we musn't talk too much about it, because there was still a great deal of hope. This we got from the economists, as well as from the business men. We musn't frighten people into thinking that there was a bad unemployment situation, but we must be open and honest about it so far as the State of New York was concerned. We had to publish the facts every month in our Labor Department bulletin as to what the number of jobs that were closed down were, but with no scare headlines. As a matter of fact, there was no reason for headlining it, because there was still mixed employment available. It showed in our figures if a man got laid off in the steel industry - one month there were so many employees and the next month there were several thousand