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overcome the unemployment in the steel industry.”

We talked on pleasantly. I knew by that answer that there were some steel workers there, and some people from the offices, some people from the town and so forth. That was that. I went back to the Burgess's office and shook hands with him. I started to go out of the building, down a flight of stairs. There was a large portico on the building. It was one of those buildings built with a canopy over a rather large entrance stair just two steps up from the sidewalk.

While I was in the Burgess's office, I heard a rumpus. I heard the Burgess say, “Put them out and tell them to keep still.”

I said, “What's the matter?”

One of the newspaper men with me said, “Oh, there are some fellows out here trying to get in to meet you and the Burgess wouldn't let them in.”

I said, “Well, the hall was very crowded.”

Then the Burgess took my cue and said, “Yeah, it's too crowded. We couldn't let any more people in.”

The newspaper man said, “But these men say they want to meet you. You're the Secretary of Labor and they want to meet you.”

I said to the Burgess, “Could they come up?”

He said, “No. There isn't room for them. There'll