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bit by Senatorial prerogatives. We picked a number of other people also. As I remember, there wasn't a labor man on the outfit. He wouldn't have a labor man on it. He picked people that he said would be good conciliators. Gerard Swope was one of them. Walter Teagle was another. These were mostly connected with industry, but they were nevertheless good conciliators - fine conciliators. Both Teagle and Swope were excellent. They were the ones that I personally used the most. I never saw better conciliators than either one of those. At the moment I've forgotten the rest of the outfit.

He assembled this board with great publicity and they went to work. They were willing to do whatever they were asked to do. They were anxious to make the NRA work too. They acquired, as the rest of us did, an affection for Johnson and a desire to help him. They wanted the strikes to stop, of course, as they were very wasteful and not accomplishing much of anything.

This board was really not a bad idea because most of the actions that led to the strikes were the actions of employers. So it wasn't a bad idea to face an employer who was unwilling to meet the union with a name in industry that he recognized as an important fellow in industry, although not in his industry.