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you make a move to hold a hearing in another part of the state on the theory that not everybody had a chance. There are an infinite number of ways of delaying action. I learned a lot of them from him. Most of them are not observable by other people. I must say that I've used them myself at times since then, frequently preventing from happening things that I still think were wrong or would have been a bad idea.

Cullen was a past master at it and he was the one who delayed the codes very much. I had therefore to be in a position of pushing more than I would have liked to have been, because there was one man delaying. I had to push otherwise it wouldn't go along. Edwards was a good fellow, but he never would have pushed a thing out. He'd vote with me, but he wouldn't take the lead in pushing out, or very rarely, at least.

These were all very critical and very important because the Legislature had delegated to the Industrial Board the power to make rules and regulations that had the force and effect of law, and declared them to have the force and effect of law. It had authorized the Industrial Board to make those rules, which we call codes, had described the method by which they should do it- by calling an advisory committee upon which the employers and the workers in that industry should be included for consultative purposes,





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