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provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics were accurate but hadn't been supported, and so forth.

I gave him a summary of what the administrative duties were. He said, “That would be a nice job for you, wouldn't it?”

I said, “That would be fine. That part of it I just feel all right about. I know how to run these different shows and I can correct some of the things that they are now doing that are run badly. I can correct them if you're willing to let me go ahead. The tragic part is that nothing has been done in all these years in the U.S. Department of Labor looking toward a series of basic projects in labor legislation. Although the State of New York has pretty good labor legislation, and Wisconsin has good labor legislation, California has some, Massachusetts has some, the other states of the union, and the people who were in the other states of the union, have practically no protection, or very meager protection, by labor legislation.”

I called his attention to what he already knew about the differences between the workmen's compensation law in Pennsylvania and New York. One of the standing problems in New York administration was that so many cities and towns are right on the line between New York and Pennsylvania that if they got hurt on a truck, let's say, they would always





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