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to which there should be cooperation with the states, what the function of the United States Employment Service was. During the period of the CCC, which I've gone into, the Wagner-Peyser was not then law, so by exeuctive order I had set up the National Re-employment Service, which was really the beginnings of the U. S. Employment Service when we should get the statutory authorization for it. We started out employment offices all over the country. I brought Frank Persons in for the emergency job, always knowing that if we got the Wagner-Peyser Act through, I would appoint him head of the U.S. Employment Service, which I did.

That grew into an excellent organization. Within two or three years, long before the Social Security system was in operation, this United States Employment Service had grown into a good chain for state employment offices, operated in cooperation with, and under a set of rules and regulations and requirements as to the qualifications of their personnel set up by, the United states Employment Service in Washington. It was a good, first-class thing, going well, with a very superior record for placements at a time when we were only having a little employment. Employment began to be more plentiful, but not very plentiful as early as 1935. It was still difficult, but by good placement work they were making a lot of placements.