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Miller: 



Baum: 

 Miller: 



Baum: 

 Miller: 



Baum: 



Miller: 



Ho, I'm the father, definitely the father of that plan, 



and the state employment service was not in the field 



as far as I know at that time, I don't believe there 



was such an agency then. So far as I know I never saw 



any. Later they took over. 



In 1935 you were alone? 



Yes, and later, perhaps 1938 or 1939, they took over, 



and they made themselves a job. They did come in and 



they did the same thing that I did only in quite a 



different way. They weren't law officers. They were 



only in here doing a job. 



Getting the pickers together with a job. 



That's right. They employed my complete practice — 



with the exception, of course, that they didn't go as 



far as I did. They just registered them and acted as 



liaison between the pickers and the farmers. 



When did you go out of the picture as the registering 



agent, then? 



I didn't have to do it any more after two or three years. 



They took over more and more and I then went my own way 



into the law enforcement part of it, going through 



this in the same way as the prior years with the 



