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labor matters, I thought he would be a help. I had a plan that in the evenings when we got into this area we would try to get the local priest to get some of the workers together in the evening when they were completely free of the supervision and overlooking of the employer's superintendence. I could have done that myself, but I knew that I would be fully occupied all day and that Father Haas could go see the local priest. They could easily and quickly arrange a little meeting in the parish hall. He would be able to do that while I was going around the mill.

I also took this economist from the University of Pittsburgh, whose name I've forgotten. He's the man who later recommended Madden to me. He was teaching economics at the University of Pittsburgh. He knew the steel industry quite well. As he said to me when I talked with him about it over the telephone, “I know it as well as anybody in Pittsburgh can know it who isn't himself a steel worker, because we're never allowed in the mills. I've never seen the inside of these mills, but I know their reports and I know something about it.”

So I gave him a temporary appointment in the Department of Labor as economic adviser, or some such thing, for two or three days. I took him because I knew that I would need eyes and ears. I also said to him, “I don't want to do this from