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out any beginnings of unions in the mass production industries and in the big industrial operations. You had the old textile union, which, because it had once been pretty well established in the New England mills, always had a vestige of an organization and always had a contract with some mills, because there were some employers who didn't have any objection to the textile union. They were in the habit of doing business that way.

The objection of the employers brought about, of course, what could be called the labor trouble. They organized, joined a union and were promptly fired. So then they struck. So then they screamed for a conciliator, or the employer did. So that brought the problem back to me. We greatly expanded the Conciliation Service and we had to keep these conciliators going into these new places. We couldn't keep up with all that. The Conciliation Service wasn't big enough, trained enough, or available enough to handle the great number of labor disputes that rose as a result of these organizing tribes. It was just like a rash - strikes hers and there.

Johnson, of course, resented any movement that interfered with the operation of NRA as he theoretically conceived it - the agreement is made, you do this and that, the wheels turned and so on. Anything that for a moment delayed the turning of those wheels was the devil itself.