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The result was that we've got a labor department in every state in this nation today, and they've got the right of entry in every one of them. Even in the states where they had no right of entry, they've amended their laws to give them the right of entry. A great deal of amending has gone on. They've passed a body of magnificent labor legislation, including prohibition of child labor, regulation of hours of labor of women, and so on. All these are for intra-state industries that are not covered by our federal wages-hour law. There were six or eight states that had no workmen's compensation law when they began. They've all got them now. The states that had poor laws have greatly improved them. Every year there's been an improvement in workmen's compensation laws.

So these conferences have had a very broad influence, and I think they've probably done as much for the working people of the United States, by and large, as any one thing that we ever did.

Getting back to the Conciliation Service and the labor unions, there never was and never should be any special relation of the labor unions to the Labor Department. The Department never can deal with labor except when there's a strike. That's when you deal with labor directly. You're enforcing a law when you go in and enforce the wage-hour act. You're making an investigation when the women's Bureau