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wasn't what you'd expect from really tough labor leaders. Anyhow, they all agreed to that. They thought it would be good to open up the public buildings. I knew that we had very little chance of opening up public buildings for sleeping quarters, but still that wasn't too bad.

Then I tried two or three other suggestions on them. At any rate, in the course of this day they arrived at a set of ideas. I think there were six subjects on the list of things that we had agreed to. None of them were of much importance, except the one that had to do with immediate relief. The others were quite fancy and theoretical. They'd been in the books. They'd been in the newspapers. They were not original at all. They were all perfectly solid, perfectly good things. They were all for the limitations of the hours of labor to thirty hours week-share the work. They accepted that theory.

I still have the list of things they agreed on. I ran across it while going over some papers preparatory to going out to Urbana, Illinois for my lectures (spring 1953).

So that night we met to report and put it together. The next day we discussed that report and in the early afternoon we had an appointment with the President. I took over a committee of, I guess, eight or ten people. I don't