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by the brilliant work he'd done in the United States. It's very interesting when you think what that afterwards brought about. He afterwards became Prime Minister of Canada and a great fellow.

The President appointed this Walsh Committee to inquire into the question of industrial relations in the United States. They were to find out if they were bad and so report, and if they were bad, why they were bad, and what contributed to bad industrial relations. This was also the time when the National Civic Federation was going strong and had lots to say about industrial relations. It was carrying on great propaganda about having good industrial relations on the basis of certain very paternalistic practises - good recreation halls, nice flower gardens in front of factories and so forth. They did a lot of propaganda. I've always thought that although they were laughed at a lot, to a certain extent they did do good. They introduced the idea that you should at least think about the health of the workers, think about whether they should be pleased or happy with this, and that there was some relation between production and a contented or satisfied personnel. They did a lot of propaganda.

Ralph Easley and Gertrude Beeks were their secretaries. They later married, though they weren't married for many years. It so happens that Gertrude Beeks, later Mrs. Easley,