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I may say my successor, Mr. Schwellenbach, was a little surprised when he found the letter. I don't know that he wanted to go himself. I don't think he did, because he didn't know anything about it, and he was completely absorbed in other matters by the time the thing came off. He would just have made a stage speech, you know, and then he'd have come home right away. I wanted to go as a working delegate, as the head of the delegation, naturally.

Interviewer:

Who were the other members?

Perkins:

Elmer Thomas of Utah was the other Government delegate. Robert Watt was the labor delegate, and Zellerbach was the employer delegate. I'd been of course to other meetings--before the War, I'd been to other I.L.O. meetings. I guess Henry Dennison was dead by this time. I seem to think he was there, though, curiously, as an advisor. We had a very interesting group. You see, the advisors are just as interesting and just as important, really, as anybody else. There was the usual C.I.O. person--I've forgotten who that was, but he was a good fellow.

Interviewer:

David Saposs?

Perkins:

Oh, no! He was no C.I.O. and he was no labor man. Gosh, we had labor men! We didn't have phony economists





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