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Secretary of Labor and make public their reports. The idea was that through investigations, inquiries and recommendations gradually to improve the working conditions for women throughout the country. The Children's Bureau was established in 1913. The last act of William Howard Taft as President was to sign the bill that created it. That was, of course, an important bureau, but it didn't take up such a lot of money.

Then we had the Conciliation Service which was run by Hugh Kerwin, a nice Fellow, who was really pretty good in his own right. He was a former AF of Labor union man, but he'd been in this post for quite a long time. I don't know how long, but he'd been there a good long time. Most of the conciliators were elderly ex-AF of L local officers. Not all of them were, of course. There were one or two others that had drifted in some other way. Hugh Kerwin's son was a conciliator. He was the only young one in the Conciliation Service, and he hadn't come out of a labor union. He'd come right out of school.

Then there was an apology for the U. S. Employment Service. It was just an apology. It really was almost nonexistent. It had a director and twenty-five or thirty people.

The Department, therefore, was in pretty bad shape. The Bureau of Labor Statistics was functioning, but the head