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About a week before I left Washington to go to Geneva Lubin came to me and said, “I've got to make a suggestion to you about this commission.”

I said, “Do you want to go?”

“Lord, no. I don't want to go. I think Chalmers is a good person and we don't want to clutter this up with a lot of Labor Department people. But I have been asked to make the suggestion to you that there should be a woman on this commission.”

I said, “I don't see the sense of that. There's no special womanly problem involved in this. This is a question of the study of the British labor law. We don't have any women going on strike here particularly. There's no special problem of women striking in England. It has nothing to do with feminism or with woman's position in industry. What they're studying is the technique of preventing strikes by law and by the setting up of the system of tribunals which will have the effect of doing justice.”

He said, “Well, this has been suggested to me.”

I said, “If that's the case, I'm going. I'm ex officio, but if you need the woman's point of view, I'll be there.” Then I looked at him. He looked very queer. He was almost blushing and red. I could always tell when