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many years earlier, although I had not taken part in the Pittsburgh survey. But I had been close to it and had read the reports as they came out, had seen the picture and knew the story. I had been studying the economics of steel for the previous two or three weeks with our own economists and with Alex Sachs. So I knew about the steel industry well enough to speak up for labor's interest in it.

However, the working people wouldn't know that. They would gather the impression that I had an interest and knew something about steel if I went up, was photographed and went around the steel mills. So I decided to go. By this time I had two or three people of my own in the Department who could do a little leg work, could telephone, and knew how to pick out the two or three best mills for me to visit. When I said “best,” I meant the most accessible, the most impressive, the ones near enough to each other so that I could make a big tour in one day, two or three days. I knew I couldn't go out West. I couldn't go out to see the Inland Steel. I couldn't go out to see Republic. They were too far and I didn't have the time. But we could see to it by publicity techniques that the pictures got into the local press in Chicago, in the Ohio neighborhood of the Republic Steel Company, and in other steel communities.

So somebody picked the places for me and then I sat