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acquaintance of hers. At any rate, Mrs. Rosenberg was put somewhere in the second or third string of the New York office of the Social Security Board.

We had a wave of strikes in '35, '36 or '37. It got to be pretty pressing. The strikes weren't so terrible, but their frequency was quite often. They didn't last awfully long, but there was a great deal of publicity about it. When you actually compare figures of strikes, number of man hours lost, number of persons involved, they weren't so awful. There were some sit-down strikes, but there were other strikes too. The man days lost was as nothing compared to those in the strikes we'd had in years when nobody mentioned them at all. One woman said to me once, “Why I remember when strikes always lasted five or six months. It wasn't a strike otherwise. Why should I get so excited over a strike that lasts fourteen days? What's the idea of raising the roof over that? That's nothing.” However, there were a good many of them; although they were small and involved relatively few people per strike, it nevertheless gave the impression of a wave of strikes.

Also the newspapers at this moment began to turn on the New Deal and have no patience with us. That was partly Hugh Johnson's fault because he had sort of acclimated the people to believe that there ought not to be any strikes-