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life of the minor workers, but he knew best. He was “Papa knew best” about it. He took no back talk from any of the district leaders, you know that. But what he did nevertheless was for their welfare, and he was far-sighted, and he thought about them, and he worked at it, he thought it out. He was very wise. I mean, he had the right ideas. He had sound ideas about what was best for them.

Interviewer:

A dedicated man, as we think of him, would be dedicated to the cause of the mine workers.

Perkins:

Well, he was. He was dedicated to the cause of the mine workers, but he had the belief that their cause and his own were one and the same, and that the success and the aggrandizement of John L. Lewis resounded to the credit and was a help to the mine workers. I'm sure of that.

Interviewer:

I've always had the feeling that this is true of any dedicated person anyhow.

Perkins:

Well, I don't know that it is. It's likely to be. Of course, with him, he showed it more conspicuously than most people would. I mean, he showed his double dedication.

Are you coming tomorrow? I want to make a comment on what I said yesterday about John L. Lewis--not that it wasn't entirely correct, but I think it was slanted, possibly, by





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