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mine, but anyhow I got to Bill Green with the idea that this was not wages and would never be called wages. We changed the bill and we used the phraseology that these persons would be given an allowance of a dollar a day. It was an allowance, not a wage. That didn't altogether satisfy him, but it nearly did.

Anyhow, Bill Green was present at the committee hearing where I had to testify. He was going to testify in favor of it as an emergency measure, but he was going to say to Congress still that he didn't think it was proper to give them a dollar a day. He felt they should be paid the prevailing rate of wages. Well, of course, the prevailing rate of wages didn't go down with the Congress in those times as a relief wage.

I testified at great length. I think I did pretty well. I described the operation. I glossed over the more uncertain parts of it, which I couldn't explain, because we hadn't yet devised a method of how they would be done. I did not tell the Congress that the military would furnish the tents. You don't want to rouse all those problems. I didn't explain to the just how them thing would be done. It wasn't in the bill and it didn't have to be explained. It would be done under the regulations set up by the director, if ever we got him. I'm not sure, at this moment,