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amount of time. They don't get tired of the people, you see. They have a greater cause.

Interviewer:

They're true believers.

Perkins:

They're true believers. And they'll stay with an organizing job in the South when nobody else would stay with it another hour. They'll eventually make some progress and get some members, because the people of the South were really desperately opposed to unionization. They didn't want to be unionized--large quantities of them didn't. It had to be sold to them. I see, by the way, that George Meany's going to go into the business of organizing the South.

Interviewer:

Let's go back to some of these diary accounts. Quebec Conference mean anything to you?

Perkins:

I didn't go. All I know is what the President said to me.

I want to tell you this. It was in regard to this whole wartime business of secret expeditions here and secret meetings and plans. I took great pains never to ask a question, and to know only what I heard, and to forget that if possible. It was not my business, and I had a feeling I might reveal it sometime.

Interviewer:

Do you have any memory of anything in the





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