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was quite different from our problem. They had an elaborate system of mediation, trial, and so forth - a system which our Congressmen, who were making these wild speeches, would never have tolerated for one moment. As a matter of fact, I knew pretty much all that there was to know about it. So did the people down in the Bureau of Labor Statistics who had studied the laws in the various countries. We could have written the members of Congress an essay that would have answered practically every question about what the English had done to control strikes, what they had done after the general strike, what brought on the general strike, what its aftermath was, and so forth, what the political implications were also. After all, there was a Labour Party going in England all this time, which we didn't have any trace of here.

However, I realized that no amount of knowledge was going to do anybody any good. They were in danger of passing a lot of reckless bills and were blaming the President, of course, for all this - to say nothing of blaming me, which I didn't like, but which it was my duty to take. I always took the burden of it and still think it was my place to do it no matter what the causes were. I was the Secretary of Labor and I had to accept the blame for everything, although it was a set of circumstances and not any policies