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Department of Labor to the Attorney General, stating the situation, the conflict in the cases in the Circuit Courts, stating what the opinion of Judge Hutcheson had been, and suggesting that if the Attorney General thought well of it, we believed that there ought to be an appeal to the Supreme Court on a writ of certiorari. It was a very complicated letter. Someone asked me at a hearing before the Congress, with a very glowering black look at me, “Did you write the letter to the Attorney General?”

I had to answer, “No sir, that was a lawyer's letter pure and simple, though I authorized it and knew the purport of the letter.”

He'd taken offense at some phrase in it which was a purely legalistic phrase.

Robert Jackson was the Solicitor General at that time and he, I know, was consulted in this. I talked to him myself. This wasn't just a conference at the lower level. Robert Jackson was involved in it. As Solicitor General he advised me that that was the proper thing to do and that the Justice Department would so do, so we proceeded. From that time on I lost my contact with it, because it had become a lawyer's matter. Our lawyers and the Attorney General between them prepared whatever had