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On the other hand, the fifty-four hour bill had been redrafted and revamped when I came into the picture. The first time I went to Albany on that, I think the Democrats had come in. That would be John A. Dix as Governor. There was a Democratic majority so therefore the technique was to put the bill in the hands of a Democrat in the House and a Democrat in the Senate. It was all done the way things are done now.

Edward Jackson was head of the labor committee in the Assembly. He was a railroad train man - “Big Ed” Jackson was a huge creature. Another bill that labor always supported was the full crew bill - the first of the feather bedding. He was making a fight for that. I'm not sure that it was through, but that was definitely his bill and his interest. He'd been elected an Assemblyman from Buffalo. He'd been there several years so that he became the chairman of the Committee on Labor and Industry.

The chairman of the Committee on Labor and Industry in the Senate was the McManus. He came from New York City - the Hell's Kitchen district - and was a bird, really, when I think of it. I got to know him very well. I'm one of the few people now operating who really knew a real, old-fashioned Tammany Hall pure politician. I had lived at Hartley House