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ever made any gesture to try to help the working people. This is the only thing that has been thought of and we guess it's good.”

I raised the question about wages. Well, they were worried about that. They agreed with me that wages ought to be set.

I became aware that this bill was taken seriously within a very few weeks of our coming down to Washington - taken seriously by the press, for instance. I began to be asked questions about it by the press. I had never taken it seriously. I didn't think anybody gave it a thought. It was taken seriously by some of our Labor people. It was taken seriously even by Senator Wagner, who said that it was very seriously considered in Congress. I said, “Well, do you think it's good?”

He said, “No, it doesn't seem very sensible to me, but these people in Congress, or many of them, think it's a very good idea.”

So I began to see that we had to cope with it. Henry I. Harriman was then president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He was a man I'd known for a long time. He was from Massachusetts. He was one of these good Republicans. He was the type who was a conscientious, careful person, with a very well-informed mind and background, and socially