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In the midst of all this problem about the window cleaners there arose an idea in my mind, and in a lot of other minds, that a lot of them were crooks. They kept their payrolls and offices in their hats. They didn't really have a place of business. You couldn't examine their books. They were a low lot too and they strove to protect themselves by charges that somebody was getting after them. They began making charges to me that the State Fund officials were shaking them down. That was calculated to make me very nervous, the Governor very nervous. It was calculated to make us doubt our own people and to blame our own State Fund, rather than to blame the window cleaners' employers.

We had an investigation under way on all their charges and we were handling it after a fashion. It seemed to be all right. The Governor knew all this. I kept him fully posted. I went to England to study the administration of their unemployment insurance law and the administration of their public employment offices. This must have been about '29 or '30. I also went to an international conference in Amsterdam, which they'd made a great point in having me come to. It was to be an international conference on unemployment and how to prevent it.

I look back on that conference with considerable confusion. I kept getting letter after letter from many Europeans whose