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tried to make an agreement between the New England and the Middle Atlantic states. So that my idea, and the President had assented to it, was to try and take this opportunity of the larger meeting of the Governors to put that over in a larger way and introduce it.

So I prepared a considerable memorandum, both on the laws that might be involved, and the precedents, quoting the Port Authority of New York as a pattern of covenant between the states. I went into that in some detail. I also had put on the memorandum for the President the matter of unemployment, about which there could be an immediate agreement between certain states with regard as to how to handle unemployment. We had reached the point then where people were going across state lines. People from one state were going over to another state, hoping to get some help over there, or be able to get a job there. There was a great movement of the population, with people taking their last cent, or selling some item of value, in order to try to get to a place where they heard was work, or in some cases where they heard they were still giving out relief.

The stories the Governors told were stories of a great deal of this wandering around and of great resentment in some states because outsiders were coming in. They too were getting a handout. The town look-ups, or jails, in