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He said to me, “I will not wait upon these filthy people.” Mr. and Mrs. Rohde, the prize German couple, just couldn't swallow this. They just thought that was the most dreadful thing that ever happened in their lived. He was very strict and severe and looked like a Prussian soldier. He was a very good man and did his work beautifully, but this was just beyond words. Making sandwiches and coffee for all that mob. They thought it was most unwise. They felt sure that everything we owned, including all our silver, would be taken. It never had occurred to me to look up. anything. We lost nothing - not a thing.

Tannenbaum came. He was the most vocal of all. But they all were vocal. My goodness how they spoke up: They didn't know what the party was all about either. They were just odds and ends of people off the Bowery and they didn't know what they were doing there. Some people wanted to know what the unemployed thought about something, so they told them, but they didn't know who we were. They didn't know that Paul had any connection with the city government. We took pains not to let that be a factor, because there were several other people from the administration who came and it was important that they should hear what they had to say, but that they shouldn't be identified as part of the government.