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“Oh, you'll have to take a car.” “Well,” I said, “all right, we'll leave it a couple of blocks away and we'll walk. I don't want to have anybody notice the car parked outside. We'll have a crowd if we have an official car out there.”

So this man took me down to see the hiring halls in operation. It was a really very interesting experience. They were by no means first-class. We had been working, through the employment service, on the idea of a hiring hall run by the employment service. We had recommended that there should be a hiring hall run by the U.S. Public Employment Service, and that employers, or their agents, could come there and ask for a crew. We would select a crew, and would carry out the agreement as to rotation and who was entitled to what. There would be no abuses about it because it would go through the employment office. They were never willing to accept that. We had really a very fine plan made. We had picked out a good location for it in a good clean place. We would make it look like something, with no more of this shouting out the orders and letting the men kind of rush for the job. We were going to select them. But when they came to make the agreement, neither tha employers nor the workers wanted