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as you want to about how far you'll go to help the man to get another job. But there's not going to be much money available for new jobs, I suppose.

Then I told him that with regard to the Employment Service Senator Wagner had had a bill in for two years, the Wagner-Peyser Act, creating a Federal Employment Office which was truly in cooperation with state employment offices and in which there would be grants-in-aid from the federal government to the states for the conduct of employment offices, and exchanges across the border. I stress this because we were thinking completely in terms of state cooperation, with the state doing a great deal of this work. I said that I thought we should back that Wagner Bill strong, get Jim Farley's cooperation, and get it put through right away in the first session.

He said, “All right, sure.”

Then I said, “I would reorganize the Employment Service.” I also said that in the meantime I had fired most of the people in it and that we would do the best we could to make a little veterans' organization, but that I didn't propose to pay rent on premises in remote parts of New York State and Pennsylvania, merely because on those premises some aged person lived whom the Republicans wanted to give a job to. They put offices up in the funniest places