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in her administration. I think that was in Taft's administration. That was put in the Labor Department on the theory that it was the poor people's department and the children of working people would be the concern primarily of the Children's Bureau.

That was about all there was to it, but it was a great feather in everybody's cap. We just felt fine and everything was going to be better. That was the outstanding thing of the Wilson administration in its early days as far as I could see - the things that I was interested in. I thought Wilson was a very good President and a very admirable President, but the other things didn't touch me. But the Department of Labor touched me and then after the war came on, of course, with Newton Baker, as Secretary of War, he adopted a very humane and right policy about labor conditions in factories having war contracts. That was the first step forward that was really made.

I had some contact with the Labor Department from this time on, but not too much because the Labor Department really didn't do too much. There was trade union legislation. Trade union stuff is stuff that they thought up to make their jobs a little better, a little more competitive and to keep people out of their jobs - to reduce the hazards to them in their skilled trades. They were trying to take trade unions out from injunction proceedings. The injunction had been abused