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down to telephone. I telephoned first to Irwin. He was then the President of U.S. Steel - or at least, I think he was at that time. Anyhow, I telephoned to him and said that after our difficulty the other day, we had all decided, the President included, that I would have to be the one who made the statement with regard to the interests of the working people and the provisions for the protection of labor in this code. If I had talked it over with the President, it was only offhand. I probably told him. He didn't care what you did about it. You were always at liberty to use his name to open a door, if he trusted you as he did me. I may have mentioned it to him, but it wasn't by way of asking his permission. I said to Irwin, “I want to visit the McKeesport plant and some other plant of the United States Steel Company, but I don't want to walk in without your invitation, I am after all a public officer, but I want to be invited.” Of course, and this I didn't mention, no public officer of the United States has any legal right of entry into any mill anywhere in the United States.

So I told Irwin that I wanted to be invited. I wanted the superintendent of the mill to see me. I wanted to see him first of all. I wanted him to assist me.

Irwin hemmed and hawed and finally said, “This is something!”