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Washington, but you call all the local newspapers in Pittsburgh, McKeesport, Bethlehem, and all of these areas, and tell them that the Secretary of Labor is coming, will arrive on a certain train and will visit the mills. Tell them that if they want to send a reporter, that'll be all right.”

So we arrived. Father Haas and I had breakfast with this economist in Pittsburgh, and we started out. A number of newspaper men came to the hotel where we had breakfast and asked if they could come also. They had their cameras with them. All this was all right with me. It was exactly what I wanted, although I appeared reluctant about it. I said that I didn't know whether I could get them into the mill or not, but that I would try. I said, “Stick close to me and try to look like part of my party.”

So we went out to the mill. We drove up to the gates. The guard had information to admit us. This was the McKeesport mill. He called the superintendent at once. The superintendent came out to me. I introduced the newspaper men and photographers as well as Father Haas and the economist. I didn't even ask him if he'd let them in. I just took it for granted. He'd had orders that we'd been invited. He was as nice as pie. Nobody could have been nicer.

He said, “I suppose you want to start right through the mill.”