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had gone ahead rapidly, was very good in her job. I had never heard of her. One wouldn't. She was a young person too far down the line to have had any direct contact with my office.

There was a meeting of young Communists in Chicago, a rally of some sort. There was a delegation going from Washington. I don't think I paid much attention to it, or even registered it very much until the day after the train had left. Then there was a photograph in the Washington papers of the train going off, with a special car with banners draped on it. In the back of the car were several people waving. There was a pretty dark girl standing there. She was identified in the paper as Helen Miller, who was in charge of some section of the party.

That very next morning three people came into my office to see Miss Jay bringing this paper. They said, “Do you know who that girl is? She works in the Department of Labor in the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”

I at once called up the man who was then running it. Lubin had been lent to the President, was working in the President's office on loan. A man named A. Ford Hinrichs was then running it. I said, “What about this? Does she work there?”





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