Home
Search transcripts:    Advanced Search
Notable New     Yorkers
Select     Notable New Yorker

Frances PerkinsFrances Perkins
Photo Gallery
Transcript

Part:         Session:         Page of 912

done by Schwellenbach. Schwellenbach did it first, and it was the stupidest thing I ever heard of, and Tobin merely followed on, not giving much thought. He just sent word to the employers' association to say that they should select a delegate.

By this time a man named McCormick who packed spices and things in Baltimore was up on this, and a man from Ohio--fat, plump man with spectacles, typical Babbitt. They had gone to see the Chamber of Commerce and said they'd like to be delegates, so the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce named them. This was not this year, but the year before, or two years before. This 1952 meeting was their second or third jaunt to the I.L.O.

Well, they had broken every rule that had been established during my administration as to how the American delegation should behave. On one of the very first delegations that I appointed, I appointed Henry I. Harriman and he took along as an advisor Sam Lewisohn. There were other people there too. Henry Harriman of Boston, and Lewisohn of New York. He was, of course, in mining and metallurgy and some chemicals. He had a very large interest in industry.





© 2006 Columbia University Libraries | Oral History Research Office | Rights and Permissions | Help