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By this time, of course, there had begun to be all these hearings before Congressional committees about agricultural labor. The Department of Agriculture injected itself into the situation. General Glassford was in the picture for about a year and a half. He saw the next year through.

I was out in that area two years after he had been out of the picture and they were still referring to the Glassford wage - farmers, workers, town officials. I would hear, “Well, that's all right. He's paying the Glassford wage. There's no trouble there.” Some of these people had now been organized into a union. The regular AF of L organizers always want them to ask for an increase in wages right away. These men would say, “No, we don't need that. We've got the Glassford wage.” The Glassford wage was something handed down on tablets of stone.

In the hurly-burly that was going on this passed rather unnoticed. I've forgotten whether I referred to it, as I should have, in my annual report or not. I wrote my annual reports with quite a lot of care usually and they're better vehicles of information than most annual reports. Although my advisers would say,” Nobody reads annual reports,” I used to say,” Well, I'll read them myself some day and that will help me remember.”