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That's the regular way. Our immigration inspectors and our conciliators do that.”

I also said, “Our conciliators always make reports regularly.” I was still at the point where I was wrestling with the conciliators to try to make them make regular reports. He was new so I laid it onto him that he was supposed to make a daily reports, or if that was impossible, and it sometimes was, to make at least a bi-weekly report, and keep us fully informed.

“I'll keep you fully informed. I understand, ma'am. I'm an officer for the Department of Labor, am working for the Department.” He wanted to read the act that creates the Department of Labor. He read it over. He read the preamble, saw the purpose of establishing a Department of Labor, which was to improve the working conditions and promote the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, increasing their opportunities for favorable employment.

He impressed me as a humanitarian man, but not as a sloppy one, not a sentimental one. I said to him,” Now, you know, we are the federal government. They've been having some awful treatment by the local governments out there. We have to somehow or other straighten that out.”

“Well,” he said,” our Lord told the parable of the man from Samaria that stopped to pick up a dirty old thing





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