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excited Senators would be pleased with, but still it's a system that works for the Swedes.”

So he agreed to that. He said, “Can you get good people to go?”

I shopped around. I said that my theory was that we would have a number of employers of labor whom we would know to be good people whose names would mean something to the community, and we'd have a number of American labor leaders on the commission, and the chairman would have to be someone who was familiar with the subject and who would be neither an employer nor a working man - just one who was familiar with the subject. I said that I was going myself to the ILO meeting in Geneva that year and would be an ex officio member of it. The Department would provide an executive secretary to keep them in order, make appointments, plan their work and see that no time would be wasted getting in touch with people when we knew who the people to get in touch with were.

This was all agreed to and we announced it. I shopped around on the telephone and got very good people to go. I remember I got Gerard Swope, Charlie Hook, Henry I. Harriman, Lloyd Garrison and Robert watt from the labor movement. I got William H. Davis to be the chairman of it. William H. Davis had been in the NRA. This was William Hammatt