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she was going to ask me to put a good Democratic women, who, “by George, not only needed the job and had done wonderful work for the Democratic party, “but according to Mary's account would also do a good job of handling the immigration affairs. There was a lady named May Ward in Boston whom Mary had staked that job for and also one in Seattle, Washington. Anyway, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was overhauled when I came in.

Now, when I said that I didn't reorganize the Department of Labor, but just organized it I meant just that. Immigration and Naturalization not only took up the largest part of the budget, but also the greatest number of personnel. It overshadowed everything else. The problems connected with Immigration were so multiple and came with such regularity that they took up the major amount of time of the major and higher officers of the Department.

Of major bureaus of the Department of Labor the Immigration and Naturalization Service was the largest. The Bureau of Labor Statistics was the oldest. That was very small as we think of it now. The Women's Bureau was established during the First World War, but was actually made a statutory bureau in about 1918. The Woman's Bureau was to inquire into and report upon the conditions of women in industry. It was to report to the