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He said, “That's all right. It's all right to study those things.”

I said, “We need an absolutely good, well-developed, central public employment office, which really has money back of it. Senator Wagner has a bill, which he's had kicking around in the Congress for two or three years and which they never would pass, which provides for a public employment office. It's a very good bill.” That bill had been in since 1928 or '29. It was called the Wagner-Feyser Act. Theodore Peyser, a Congressman from the upper East or West Side in New York City, was the co-sponsor. It was a good bill. Anybody could accept it. I said that I thought we ought to back that right away.

Senator Hugo Black's bill for the thirty hour week had been introduced to the previous Congress. One of the first things I had to do, when I became Secretary of Labor, was to go up and try to talk Black out of it. So I'm pretty sure that he must have introduced that bill in the previous session. I think Henry Harriman went with me. At any rate, if the bill hadn't been introduced, it was talked about.

I have to remind myself of something which I didn't have to remind Roosevelt of at the time because it was current. This was the heyday of the Technocrats. Every