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Miller: figure in the investigation and the senator asked me 

 how I kept the labor peace here* Well, I related the 

 many incidents to him of how I did it, such as this 

 one: At the time that I registered these people I 

 got their names, of course, and being a type of a 

 psychologist working on just certain things I know, 

 if the name was a German name I spoke German to them. 

 *Wie sind sie heute?" Anything in German. And sure 

 enough, they liked it. This got me very close to 



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the worker. I got under their skin immediately. 

 It was awfully easy to distinguish a Spanish name, 

 so I would speak Spanish to the Spanish worker. I 

 could see it by his dark face, his features, or by 

 his name that he was Spanish. I had used this same 

 policy when I was postmaster. People used to come 

 in to buy stamps during the depression years and I 

 would stand at the desk and greet them in their 

 native tongue, and they liked me, and they'd go many 

 miles to get another quarter to buy a book of stamps, 

 and of course when you're postmaster in those days 

 your salary increased by the amount of sales you had 

 and also in depression years I wanted to be the only 



Sheriff Miller's testimony was given on December 18, 

 1939, in San Francisco. [WB] 



