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the photographers were trying to follow them into the Department of Labor, I sent out word that no photographers were to come into the Department of Labor. I began to get calls from the press as to whether they could come to the hearing. I had to instruct people to say, “There is no hearing. A group of people have asked to see the Secretary of Labor and she is going to see them. There is no hearing. We don't know what they want.”

Somebody had alerted the local press, and later I found out who it was. It was a young woman who was a reporter for the Daily Worker, Marguerite Young, who represented the Daily Worker in Washington, who was married to a man who was also on the Daily Worker staff in Washington. I knew them by sight because they came to the press conferences and I knew they represented the Daily Worker. She came in with this group and declared she was a member of the delegation. It was perfectly obvious that she was the main works of it, and that she had alerted the local photographers and the local press to try to attend this shindig they were going to have.

I say all this because it was so characteristic of the way they were working in those days. This horde





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