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went to Warm Springs and he died. By the time they took the matter up in May, we had a Russian delegation there with instructions that the I.L.O. didn't matter, and that they were not to enter it and not to have anything to say about it. Kuznetzov was at the Conference in San Francisco, and made a very good showing, apparently. That's according to the information of the labor delegates that were there for the United States, occasional ones. A good many people attended of their own accord and sat in the audience, you know--sat around. He made apparently a good impression, and a good impression with his description of the kind of labor organization they had. To many Americans it seemed an excellent idea, you know, the way the Russians handled their labor situation. As described by Kuznetzov, it seemed just fine to lots of Americans--you know, the kind that think strikes are terrible and are horrified because American working men strike, to them it seemed just fine. Kuznetzov is head of an agency which sees to it that all their reasonable wants are met--their wages, their hours, their working conditions, their productivity, their reward for productivity, their special incentive schemes all spring from him and his agency. Everything that possibly could be needed by the working man is brought to him by his Government. I mean, that was the impression that he gave,





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