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I'd better see them tonight.” It was then getting on to eight o'clock or so. He said, “I guess I'd better see them tonight so that they won't read this in the paper and hit the ceiling before I've had a chance to tell them anything. I think you'd better call Mr. FitzGerald and tell him to give out the news that I'm to be assigned to Hillman.”

I said, “Well, I'll have to tell Hillman first.”

We agreed.

Dan Tracy went up to see William Green. That evening he saw a considerable number of the Executive Committee who were in town, and he telephoned to others who were not but who could be reached by telephone. He got them in for the next day. He told them all that he was going to have a part in this.

I called Hillman. I congratulated him. I said we would help him. He assured me he wanted the help of the Department of Labor very much. I said we had a great many things stewing and in the making that would be of great use to him. He said on the telephone, “Well, I want very much to borrow Lubin right away.”

I said, “Let's leave that for the second or third step if you don't mind, because I'm going to give you something better than that. I've thought about it, and I think I should assign to you at once the Assistant Secretary of Labor,





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