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as a civilized nation was going to turn on what the labor movement was like and how it devoloped in the next ten years, the next five years even, because, hs said, “The time is getting late. It'll have to be quick. This is one of the reasons why I really want to help in here. what can be done in the Labor Department by the right kind of advice and the right analysis and the right legal analysis of the problems of the workers and their approach to them will be of inestimablo advantage. I really feel that this department is the key to the development of the labor movement, and that the labor movement is the key to the further development of American civilization.”

I thanked him very much and said that I was glad that he felt that the Labor Department was important. I felt that it was important too. He laid it on a little thicker, always with the most unctuous manner, super-respectful, super-polite, more polite than you need to be, more utilization of your title than is absolutely necessary to conduct the conversation just thick that was all. When he stood, he bowed from the hips. That's all right, but it's not commonly done in America. That was really all right, but it turned a screw in my mind about him, although I was sort of warning myself not to be prejudiced against him on this account. He should be





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