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have got to know that the Secretary of Labor is going to speak for their interests. They've got to know of their own knowledge that the Secretary of Labor knows something about the steel industry, knows something about labor people and labor needs in the steel industry.”

There wasn't much time, but I decided that I would show my face briefly in two or three steel districts and in a few steel mills, that I would go on a tour of them and would go around very thoroughly. I would be seen, be photographed, have it in the local newspapers that I was there, with a picture of me at the McKeesport plant, a picture of me taken with somebody working at the ladles, or somebody working in the rolling mills, or somebody at the furnaces - actually taken with working men. That would give to the other working men an impression that I knew about the steel industry and that I'd been there. Of course, I didn't learn much about the steel industry through that kind of a trip. A look-see doesn't teach you anything that you don't already know. My knowledge of the steel industry and its economy came from the study I had done previously, from what I had known about steel mills in the State of New York. I did know the Lackawanna Steel Company's mills pretty well and knew the officers of the Lackawanne Steel. It came from knowing that. It came from knowing the results of the study of the Pittsburgh survey