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the economic reports that they got. Every now and then they went and bought one from some good economist, but they never paid the slightest attention to it. When you get right down to business, you just bargain and do the best you can and very few labor unions actually are in a position to use economic reports. Some of the railroad unions did use them and I think Ogburn had written economic reports for the railroad unions. One of the brotherhoods got Eli Oliver to write a report for them once. He, of course, proved to be completely buyable. He could make an economic report that came to the conclusion that they wanted to come to. I don't think they ever doubted his integrity, but certainly other economists did. Other economists analyzing the same situation wouldn't arrive at the same conclusions.

However, I think Will Ogburn had made these economic reports for labor unions. So his reputation was that of an economist who was on the “liberal” side rather than on the reactionary side. I don't quite know what the word “liberal” means, but I'm using it in the usual sense of the term. He didn't have the reputation of being a reactionary economist.

At any rate, Will Ogburn was the economist for the Consumers' Committee. The committee was supposed to advise Johnson on the codes before they were adopted as to whether or not anything in this code agreement would be of great