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minded without being an extremist in the direction. Harriman had been on all kinds of civic committees. That's how I'd gotten to know him. He was on the same kind of committee that Henry S. Dennison would be on, looking towards better personnel practices, looking towards building up of retirement systems in industry, looking towards the prevention of accidents. Harriman was the president of the Boston elevated railway system. He had taken the lead in a very modern, very capable, very successful program of accident prevention for employees on the elevated railroad systems, which had very fine results. He was a leading member of the New England Council, and all that kind of thing. He had good liberal views about modern industry.

He was in favor of labor legislation and had testified in favor of restricting the hours of labor of women and regulating child labor before the Massachusetts legislature. He had been one of the principal advisers on the safety committee of the Massachusetts state labor department. So he was a very trustworthy man, not prejudiced, and did believe in labor legislation, did believe in the limitation of hours. I think he'd been favorable to the Massachusetts minimum wage act.

At any rate, he was regarded as a very enlightened