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This explains the great care with which we proceeded, and I still think it was right to proceed that way and not to proceed as though it were a routine case. I don't think this point - the fact that it wasn't handled routinely - is what caused so much hullaballoo, because, after all, there were lots of cases that were not handled like routine cases. In any event, the same result would have come about if we had handled it routinely, but I just cautioned special care because of the fact that he was a labor leader.

This, of course, solidified in my mind a recommendation which I had made earlier - a year earlier - to the President, or to Louis Brownlow, or to whoever was studying the organization of government, that the Immigration Service didn't belong in the Labor Department. In the first place, as I think I've said earlier, it absorbed all the money of the Labor Department. It overshadowed the real work of the Labor Department because it was so big and so huge. There was always this hazard of a conflict between the activities of the Labor Department in handling matters that had to do with labor unions, labor leaders, strikes, settlement of strikes, and all that kind of thing, and the duties of the Immigration Service which were to pick up anybody, no matter who he was. If he was a labor leader, or not, he had to be picked up.