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President transferred to the Labor Department, as was proper, the Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics. That was in Commerce and had been in existence about fifteen or twenty years anyhow. That was transferred over there.

They also put the Immigration Service over there. It had been in the Treasury. They transferred immigration to Labor on the wildest theory that all immigrants became laborers. That was really true. They were trying to think of something to give this department that would justify it being a department and paying grades of salaries and having Secretaries and Assistant Secretaries. That was about all there was to it - the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Immigration Service, which was a large service. That made for a large number of persons in the department.

I don't remember when the Children's Bureau Bill was passed. If it was passed in Taft's administration, he must have indicated that the Children's Bureau was going to this Labor Department. If it was passed in the Wilson administration, then he did. But it was passed very early. If it wasn't passed in 1913 and signed by Taft, and I think it was, it was signed by Wilson very early. The Children's Bureau was created and Julia Lathrop was its first head. She was a Republican and quite a well-known one. Her Father had been prominent in Illinois politics. She was entirely non-partisan and professional