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f,is chair. moaning that he had come
there to speak for the people and the
people didn't back him up: and the col
loIuy between the two men ended. to
the relief of the row of women who were
the involuntary buffers for their ges-
lures.
II was toward the end Of the hearing
that DR.. Harris was called in. Some of
the labor men who were so ardently de-
inandinr that he be retained In charge
Of the Division of Industrial Hygiene.
where, they said he had proved himself
their true fri, Id. called on him, and DR..
Copeland asked that he be summoned. II
he were in the building. Presently he
appeared. evidently much embarrassed.
Leon II. Rouse. representing the big
Six" printers Of New York. asked II 1t
were not true that his division OF In
dustrial HytA,ne was often hampered in
its work by lay inspectors following
trained inspectors ana reporting mo vio-
lation" after the latter had reported vi
olations of laws. Or. Harris replied
that this was often the case
Says Harris Busy Enough.
"But want to say, Mr.. Commissioner.
that this was before you took Office" ex-
piained Mr.. Rouse
To every one OF the speakers DR.. Cope
they didn't think the headship OF the
bureau OF preventable diseases, which
Dr. Harris now holds. was mans job
requiring all that mans energy. when
sat in this office during the influenza
epidemic and watched the death rate
going up. when I went to the cemetery
and saw the piles of the dead awaiting
burial. I wanted man at the head OF
the bureau dealing with that crisis l
had to depend on Or. Harris then and
at this time. with smallpox In Its most
virulent form in the port OF Naples, and
the chance that It may be brought to
this country. want Harris where can
depend on him again. Isn't his mans
Job? You labor men who have children
In your families, don't you want the
bureau OF preventable diseases to have
a strong man at its head?
II want you take me on the level. I
am with labor And that is the reason
that I want to take the division of In
dustrial hygiene into my Office where /
can put the whole force OF the police
power at my command back of 1t. There
will be forty inspectors instead of the
four we have had. Moreover. this ar
rangement Is not permanent hope TO
make a bureau of Industrial hygiene
instead OF the division II now is
who IL to be the head OF it?" de-
nsrdcd Mrs. Wood.
For the present D.. Hubbard" re-
piled the Commissioner.
but Hubbard did not please the labor
men. who cried loud and ,ong for the
retention OF DR.. Harris. Frank NJ. Gaa
OF the Painters and Decorators Union.
who was ruffied anyhow because the
Commissioner would call him Mr.. Gay
instead of pronouncing him With the
broad "a" was the most clamorous Of
all. declaring that they came there TO
get their rights and by c. they
would get them. But aftecward lie
shook hands with Or. Copeland quite
aniably.
she'd Do II for Nothing.
Other speakers were DR.. Ira s Vile
editor OF a medical magazine who
pleaded for the retention OF DIR. Harris .
Miss Lillian u. Wald Of Henry Stceet
settlement. Mrs. Frederick Nathan OF
the Consumers League, Delegate Ry-
bicki OF the Central Federated Union,
Miss Rose Schnederman OF the Women's
Trade Union (whom Dr.. Copeland Of
fered 500 IL she'd carry out her threat
OF getting him removed from Office. and
10 whom she replied tia. % do go
would be n labor OF love and she didn't
want his 1900, and Mrs. Elmer Blair
OF the Women's City clu1.
Mrs. Lillian Sire. who was canpa!Cr
manager fer Assomblywoman Mary NJ
Lilly, created excitement by turning on
Dr.. Copeiand's hecklers and rcnroach-
ing them bitterly fog unfair personali-
ties. Mrs. Wood ard several other aides
took ths 10 themselves and started such
an Indignant protest. all talking at once
that DR.. Copeland had to pound or
the table with his tumbler OF water, he
having no Cavei.
sit down, sit down, don't mind what
they say TO me-" he told Mrs sire
Bless your soul. they don't mean to
hurt me. I'm having a real good time"