Home
Search transcripts:    Advanced Search
Notable New     Yorkers
Select     Notable New Yorker

Frances PerkinsFrances Perkins
Photo Gallery
Transcript

Part:         Session:         Page of 578

not concerned about it. It doesn't interest them.

So when it came to the question of what was to be in the codes, although they wanted the kudos of being on the committee, when the codes got outside of the industry in which they were actually active themselves they didn't have any ideas on them at all. They didn't have anything to contribute and were never able to take a theoretical position.

So Wolman was extremely valuable. He was as much interested in the code in an industry that wasn't organized as he was in an industry that was organized. He would keep the committee on the job and on the ball. He would make an analysis of the code. He'd deduce certain principles which would apply to every code. He was never rigid. He was an economist that could take a varied position. If a thing wasn't practical in a particular position, he could see that something else should be done. He would at least apply these principles to the codes and help them to see where the principles were. He was an excellent mediator. Rows always broke out within the internal structure of the Labor Advisory Committee and he was a good mediator. He could mediate between the committee and Johnson. He could even mediate between the Labor Committee and the Employers' Committee, although for the most part there was no great





© 2006 Columbia University Libraries | Oral History Research Office | Rights and Permissions | Help