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and didn't wait until the study was over to put our recommendations into effect. We persauded people to undertake some of our recommendations before any report was written.

A report was written, however. Among other things that it proposed was unemployment insurance. It recommended a number of things that could not be undertaken except by modifications in the law, such as the prohibition against the employment of young persons - raising that age level - and the regulation of hours and all that sort of thing. I don't think anybody on the committee ever felt that there should be a regulation of hours by law under an eight hour day, but that there should be certain advantages arranged for. Unemployment insurance was one of the things that could be recommended, but couldn't be put into effect. There was a big recommendation for public employment offices on a large scale throughout the state and for federal ones if that could be done.

During this period of working Henry Bruere, who had so much confidence in Hopkins and in his good sense and ability to operate, consulted him frequently. I don't think Harry was on this committee. I don't remember it and I think I would have remembered it if he had been because I would certainly have appointed him. I would have been the one who would have selected him. The Governor did not know





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