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So I thought it the duty of the Department of Labor to be in a position, by knowledge, investigation, and planning, to take the lead in developing, either by voluntary action on the part of employers, or by state legislation in the states, where they had undoubted constitutional powers to regulate industry, or by exploring the possibilities of interstate compacts between states, Promoting at the federal level interstate compacts between states. Regulation of the hours of labor and the abolition of child labor on a piecemeal basis. I thought it the duty of the Department of Labor to take the lead in the explorations and studies which would lead to the programs of unemployment and old age insurance which we now call Social Security.

I thought it the duty of the Department of Labor to take the lead in investigations, explorations, publications of the facts with regard to causes of accidents in industry, with regard to occupational and industrial diseases, with regard to discrimination in employment against the over-age people, which was very strong at that time. Anybody over forty lost his job. I thought it was the duty of the Department of Labor to take the lead in exploring, investigating, and publishing the facts in these fields, and then to think out some method of prevention, either by voluntary action after education, or by legislation, if when, and as we could find