Oral History Interview with J. Fagg Foster, August 28, 1967 Page: 5
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them that we would make a statement for them after the meeting at
which we intended to make an effort to be heard. We did attend the
meeting.
Cochran: It was out at the fair grounds?
Foster: At the fair grounds in the...I think they call it the auditorium.
Cochran: Good size crowd there?
Foster: An enormous crowd...overflowing crowd. I don't recall the size of
the attendance, but it impressed me very much. There were more per-
sons there than could get into the hall which holds several thousand.
Cochran: Why were there so many people there? Do you have any...
Foster: Well, there of course was the highly advertised aspect of the meet-
ing presented in emotional terms, not only with respect to the Fair
Labor Standards Act, but in some vague association with our very
serious circumstances in the war after the severe blow we took at
Pearl Harbor and the consequent difficulties we had in supplying
our military personnel in the Philippines. At that time, this al-
most catastrophic situation we found ourselves in militarily was,
of course, in the mind of every American; and the effort to associ-
ate this circumstance with the Fair Labor Standards Act threatened,
it seemed to those of us involved in this incident, to threaten
productive efficiency in the country at large and especially in the
war production portion of the economy. And this, we felt, would be
very harmful to the nation's effort and would be a disservice to
the men involved directly in the military effort. And so we thought
we'd try to inhibit this. We were unable to, as I said, get an op-
portunity to speak from the rostrum, and so we sought, each of us,
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Cochran, Kendall & Foster, J. Fagg. Oral History Interview with J. Fagg Foster, August 28, 1967, book, April 16, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223563/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.