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telephone, because of the distance. If the union had been in New York Washington he might have come in on matters like that, but he never came to Washington on the settlement of any of the longshore matters. They were always settled locally.

That was very trying, I may say. It's a very trying experience to live through that kind of gossip, to live above it, and to act as though you didn't mind it. I finally had a good chance. A lady in New York, whom I didn't know, but who was a member of a club of some sort, wrote me a letter, a very nice, ladylike letter, and said that she had been greatly disturbed by these rumors, that they were all over New York and were told her every time she went to a club meeting, that I was a Jew, that I was a Red, and that I was concealing the fact that I was a Jew. She said, “I have nothing whatever against the Jews In fact, I am closely associated with many Jews in philanthropic work and In social life. But I would be distressed if you, or anybody else, were concealing the fact for any ulterior purpose. I am writing to you because I have long admired you and known your work. I'm Just writing to you to ask you to give me the truth and the facts on this that I may set these people, who tell me about it when I go to meetings, right.”