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about what could happen to them. The IWWs began stirring things up and expressing the grievances of these people. For the first time we back East who didn't see farms operated that way began to hear about this wandering crowd of harvest hands.

As a matter of fact, the trumps in Boston, when I was a little girl, and I know this was true also in Chicago, worked on the farms. The lodging houses were full of them in the wintertime. It was commonly known that if you were a good picker, if you could pick a decent man from a crook, at some of the tramps, lodging houses you could get men who would come and work on the grounds of your place in the wintertime when they didn't have any work.

To this day I don't think that the work of the Farm Security Administration should have been in the Department of Labor. I thought that at the time. At this moment I can't remember what the exact organization and purpose of FSA was. It was a project started in the Department of Agriculture on the theory that the farmers of this country, the people who lived by farming, had had an unusually rough deal in the depression period. They were in debt of their mortgages. Many of them were sold out for debt. The banks wouldn't lend them money. All that sort of thing.