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of Labor, or the Department of Commerce, or something, then you have located that power with a permanent agency of government that would dream of doing the same thing in peacetime because it's so fine and regular. It's just splendid. Why shouldn't the Department of Commerce always control the distribution of materials so that instead of getting just a lot of cheap five and ten cent store jazz stuff made with our metal we get something else made that is a good, noble work? If the Department of Labor through the Employment Service gets the power to force labor to go here, there and everywhere and to take this, that or the other wage, why shouldn't it continue to do so? It's a wonderful orderly way of doing things, just like they do in Germany - orderly, and systematic, and just. You don't have some people getting a lot and others getting a very small amount of money for doing the same kind of a job. You get them all doing the right thing. You get them all having the same set of holidays. It's all very nice and orderly.

It is true that if you gave those powers to a permanent agency, there would be some people in that agency who would acquire the habit of doing it that way and would never give it up easily. I've always seen the reason for that. I've always seen the reason for setting up a special agency if you're going to give out some special power.

I know that went through the President's mind. I remember





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