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materials that wear out and are badly made, but are high style, is another technique. That's what floods the market. They look very pretty and very stylish walking down the street, but they won't wear long and in a couple of months she buys another dress. That's regarded as an economic invention in the clothing trades. As far as the consumer goes, he's supposed to be able to control himself, although the industry knows that he won't.

I cite that as showing a part of the technique that this committee used to persuade various industries, who were in a position to study their operations, to move towards patterns of operations that would stabilize the whole or the part of their particular plant. It was very successful.

Nobody had ever heard of a five day week until this time. The five day week was recommended in the State of New York at that time as a method of spreading the work. We never had in mind that it would spread to everything and I think it's crazy. I didn't have the slightest hope that it would stay. It was a recommendation of despair. We were all having a hard time, so therefore we had to share our good luck, if we had work, with others. We shortened the week, shortened the day, cancelled the overtime.

What was happening was that the manufacturers, alarmed