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So we went over to Homestead. We went into the mill and looked around a little bit - just enough so that people would see that I'd been there. Then I went to call on the Burgess. His office was on the second floor of a nice old fashioned building. He was very polite. We shook hands. He was a great big fat, puffy, red-faced person, but he was full of cordiality. Then he told me there was quite a little company gathered in the Board of Burgesses room and that they wanted to meet me.

The room wasn't a very large room. It was the kind of chamber that a group of town officials would meet in. It was crowded. There were a lot of people there. Among them I saw a woman and her husband. I had known the woman. She had formerly been a teacher in the Brearley School where my daughter had gone.

I made a little speech. I explained to them about the NRA. I explained about the codes and what they were. I explained the day that I had just put in, interesting it was, and so forth. I said, “I assume that part of you people here are men who work in the steel industry.”

One man answered back and said, “Yes, we do when we've got any work, but there's lots of unemployment now.”

“Well,” I said, “I know that. That's one of the reasons the codes are set up. The steel code hopes to help