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America and the International Ladies' Garment Workers well and favorably. I knew that they were progressive in their thinking about legislation and that they would probably support me more quickly, more understandingly, than these building trades men, who didn't understand anything about regulation of the hours of labor of women, didn't want a minimum wage law for them, and so on.

I also asked one or two women. I asked Agnes Nestor of the Glovemakers. I asked Rose Schneiderman, who was the head of the National Women's Trade Union League, but had come right up out of the Shirtwaist Makers. I also asked Melinda Scott of the Pottery Workers. I knew all these women and I knew what kind of a reaction I'd get from them. I also thought it was a good idea to have women included in the first conference of labor leaders with the Secretary of Labor.

Except for these women, Hillman-Dubinsky, and Lewis, the list was perfectly conventional. We met in the Department of Labor. I invited them and most of them accepted. I understand that there were great goings - on, by way of long distance telephone calls to each other, huddles at the AF of L as to whether they should go - what would the Secretary try to spring on them, and so on? All this had never been done before. No other Secretary of Labor had