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whatever the time was. It was a great nuisance, you see. But you know how factories are located, in various communities-- miles from any public transportation, and there's no public transportation working at that time of night, you know, in the middle of the night. The time between street-cars is very slow. So we used to require them to take the women home, to get a bus and drive them around the city and deposit them in front of the houses where they lived, which was sort of a nuisance. But it had to be. There were some very scandalous things happened. I mean, there were attacks and all sorts of things. Girls were frightened to work.

So I hung around the Platform Committee.

Interviewer:

You had no particular opposition?

Perkins:

Well, yes I did, and the amendment did get into the Platform. And that was because of Emma Guffey Miller, who was a member of the Woman's Party and a powerful force in Democratic politics, having been a Democrat since before when, you know. She joined up with the Woman's Party years ago. She was Joe Guffey's sister--Father Guffey's sister. Their amendment entered into the Party Platform. I couldn't keep it out. She was strong enough.

I hung around there a great deal, and was very concerned about that. I remember the Barkley





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