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mind, let's not stay much longer in this place. Let's take them to some place less dangerous, because these newspaper men don't seem to know anything about it.”

We went through the mill. I did exactly as I said I would do. I talked to men at the benches when they were working. I didn't interrupt them in the middle of a ladle pouring, but when it was over and they were cleaning up to go out, I would talk to them. I would talk to the men at the furnaces. We would get into the rolling mills and I would talk to men on the rolling mills. I talked to men who were during the examining work, which is a very delicate and special work - examining each sheet as it comes out. I talked, I suppose, all told to about fifty or a hundred men separately. The newspaper men were taking photographs all the time, which was all right.

We then went to see the offices. We went to see the place where the girls work at some kind of clerical or semi- clerical work. We went to visit the houses. I think we had lunch and I remember saying to the superintendent who asked us for lunch, “Don't you think it would be nice if we had lunch in the cafeteria? You must have a cafeteria.”

“Sure we have a cafeteria. The men can only go out a few at a time because someone has to stay by the operation.”





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