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having him pointed out to me as one of the coming men in the Miners' Union. I remembered him because of these big bushy eyebrows which he had even then. He was a man of an interesting face. I probably had seen him in between on some occasion or other, but this was the first effective meeting I'd ever had with him, the first time I'd ever met him in any relationship where there was any question and response, or anything under consideration.

I, of course, opened the meeting with a statement of what the economic situation was, reviewing what they knew to be unemployment, the trades in which it was predominant, and so forth, and so on, the figures for employment in different parts of the country, a brief review of the suggestions that had been made from time to time by public bodies for the prevention and relief of unemployment, indicating that relief of unemployment had to come first, and prevention was a longer ranged thing. Then I said that the President was very anxious to make this one of the first items of his business in his administration. That was to be the relief of unemployment. Measures for its prevention were to be a second item. Insofar as agricultural and farm revival was essential to the revival of the economy, it would take the same place with the problems of prevention and relief of unemployment. I reviewed some of the ideas,