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get him around in a steel mill.

I took a priest with me because I thought it would make a good impression. A very large number of the steel workers are Polish and Bohemian Roman Catholics. They would recognize the clerical collar and know what it meant. All through this country I won't say that Roman Catholicism is the predominating religion of the working people, but certainly a very large number of working people are Roman Catholics. In the trade unions there are a very great number of them. In these areas there are probably more Roman Catholics than any other one single separate type of religion.

What's more, Father Haas had been teaching labor problems out at Catholic University and he had been a conciliator and a mediator in the NRA, working with the Labor Relations Committee that Senator Wagner was Chairman of. I knew Father Ryan, of course, for many, many years. He was the leader in the social thought of the Roman Catholic Church in America. He had been a lone wolf and not much honored until it all became recognized publicly. He had taught a long time about the living wage, good standards of hours, the responsibility for child labor, and so forth. Father Haas was one of his students, one of his disciples. So I thought it would make a good impression.

Because of his being a conciliator and knowing about