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So we had lunch in the cafeteria with the superintendent instead of in the superintendent's special dining room. That was all right. Of course, the newspaper men liked that and took pictures.

Then we went to see the housing in the afternoon. It was just as I said. The people were delighted to see us. They'd never seen the superintendent in the area before. He'd never been out to see the houses himself, which was a right in a way. They should be left alone and should have privacy. They invited me. They couldn't have been nicer. They were polite and pleasant to him, glad to see him, offered us a cup of coffee here and there. I talked to the women alone. I asked them about the wages, about how much work the men had. Of course, it was a period of great unemployment. There were an awful lot of people not working at all, or working two days a week. Mills were being run way below possible capacity.

At any rate, we spent the day in McKeesport and then went to a mill in Homestead. I had sent word in every case that I wanted to call, as I always do - I've always made this a project - on the local officials. When I go into any community as a high officer of the government of the United States, I think it only appropriate that I should call on the chief state or city authority. So I had sent