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told him about the infiltration that was going on.

He said, “Oh yes, we've heard that. But nothing is happening. The older men have it well in hand.”

Then I said, “What have you got Pressman out there for anyhow? I'm sure that he'll keep this thing sore and alive.”

He said, “I want to tell you, Madam Secretary, that we can work through Pressman as we can't work through anybody else.”

I said, “Really.” He said, “Yes, he is able to reach the men and the officers of the union. He has been able to be in touch with some of them in ways that we couldn't have without attracting attention. We don't know them, but he's a younger man and he gets along with them well.”

I never have felt quite easy about that either, but I said, “Well, then, for heaven's sake, Pressman has been around Washington. He must know, and you mast know, that the President has been extraordinarily patient and has done what you could hardly expect a President to do in holding back from any drastic action, and in giving the union and the working men a terrific chance to prove themselves and to come to an agreement with the employers, that in one way or another it has been brought about