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Army or Navy, gave a contract to an employer the matters for the protection of labor were written into the contract, and we had devised those.

I was perfectly content with that role. It seemed to me the proper role. No single part of the Department of Labor was in any way tampered with. Our programs continued, except that we naturally didn't go ahead with any increased legislation, either in Social Security, or any extension of the application of the wage-hour act, nor did we attempt to develop new and novel methods for the application of the wage-hour act. That was just a matter of administrative decision. We felt we had better let it ride the way it was during the war, and not try to make any additions and so upset the rhythm of production.

Our staffs were increased. The Children's Bureau, for instance, swelled to unheard of proportions during the war. The Children's Bureau took over for the Army the planning of the whole maternity care program of the Army wives. The Army didn't do it. The Children's Bureau made the plan, set up the organization, prepared the standards, urged the Army to utilize a group of specially selected and invited obstetricians who could supervise their regular Army doctors. We told them where to set up hospitals for the admission of





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