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At first they always operated as a board, but they couldn't keep up with that. Then they began to undertake separate negotiations and separate conciliation with different problem areas. They worked a great deal of that through the Department of Labor, although they were actually centered and paid in the NRA. I seemed to have had more to do with them than anybody else did, although I don't remember too much about any of that now. I do remember two or three striking things.

Within a few weeks after the board was formed, there was a very troublesome, resisting strike down in the tidewater area of Virginia in a small textile plant making some specialty. Wagner went down and three or four members of the board, because the employer wouldn't come to Washington. He was running his business, wouldn't meet the union and wouldn't come to Washington. So Wagner, being a Senator, decided to show him. So they went down. They walked up to the employer's office and got in.

I sent one of my conciliators down with them because it was too dangerous to let them go into a community where they had nobody to do the leg work, nobody to go see the union, nobody to go run back and forth for them. Too hifalutin' a person can't be a really good conciliator unless he has a leg man with him who will do the running back and forth.