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Miller: something didn't suit them they would come to me first 

 so I had them pledged; I had the farmers pledge to me 

 that if there was something they didn't like they 



Baum: 

 Miller: 







would come to me too. So I had them pledged on both 



sides* 







All information would come to you? 



I handled everything and stayed on the job from five 

 o'clock in the morning till eight o'clock at night, 

 I worked fifteen hours a day there. 



Of course, I made a note of all these various 

 things and made a regular report. Now, this is some- 

 thing I had learned from the government. In the gov- 

 ernment income tax work we had to make a daily report 

 of what we did in the hours and whom we collected from 

 and this was my way of making a daily report and 

 documenting everything that was done. Anything I did 

 was documented — where I went, what I did — there 

 was no secrecy about it at all. It was absolutely 

 open to the public. Nobody could do anything to me 

 because I had it all down and it wasn't just hearsay. 

 Because hearsay and talk is no good. When you've got 

 something documented, and who came to see you, and 



