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to initiate a new pattern of activity, a new pattern of management, with regard to these matters, and already directions have been given for the establishment of certain welfare activities at the mine. New housing will be built. The orders have already been given. There will be an improvement in housing and sanitation. Some new houses will be built as needed. There will be a health service established. We have engaged a special assistant who understands these matters and who will go and be present in the locality to represent the financial investors' interests in the matter. This is a young Canadian named W. Mackenzie King.”

I knew Mackenzie King. He was really quite an industrial specialist in his youthful days. He was in his late thirties or early forties then, quite unknown in this country except to a few social worker kind of people. I think he had taken some interest in the Pittsburgh survey. I didn't know him well, but I had met him.

When Mr. Rockefeller finished his statements, Mr. Walsh asked him a few questions. I thought to myself, “Oh, this is terrible. That poor man has prepared this and read it, but how is he going to answer the questions?” He braced himself, and answered Mr. Walsh's questions intelligently and firmly and in some detail Mr. Walsh asked him how they would proceed to deal with a union. He went on to say that





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