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qualities, a part of the thing that made him such a good leader of his union, but he was a very imaginative person and his imagination began to work on how to improve anything he was in. Now that he was in the AF of L his imagination and mind began to work on how it could be improved. He was not over his quarrels. Although they said they would have no more trouble with the Union Label Department, he was still offended by the Union Label Department, although it had nothing to do with labeling clothing any more. The NRA label solved many problems in that respect.
One realized that he was conferring a great deal with people who were in mass production industries, and who did have industrial unions, like John Lewis and Charlie Howard of the Printers. Although those unions have subordinate unions, they make their contracts together. They have pretty much a one union scheme with all the printing trades. They cell it the Allied Printing Trades. Howard was uneasy.
One realized that Hillman did a good deal of propaganda on how the AF of L was not able to organize the unorganized, how they were only able to organize among the crafts, how the great mass production industries were getting ahead of the AF of L, how these big industries employing thousands of people weren't in any unions at all, except insofar as there might be a few carpenters, a few masons, or a few
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