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wanted to do. The operation of the code with regard to wages, hours, pricing and marketing practices was what was regarded as vital in the restoration of industrial and economic life. So this 7(a), which was just tacked on, could not, in Johnson's view, be permitted to wreck the whole textile code, or the whole steel code, if an individual employer refused to comply with it.

Wagner had been accustomed, as I've said, to the operation to collective bargaining in the State of New York where it is relatively commonplace; not that it was universal, but the idea that you should meet with the union didn't as late as 1933 meet with such terrible opposition as it was meeting with in some other parts of the country. It had earlier, of course, and I've described some of the earlier difficulties in New York State, but Wagner was not familiar with those. He had been familiar only with the later and more nearly New York City practices.

There were other members of this Board who also would get pretty irritated over individual situations which they ran into. Gerard Swope, as I've said, the President of the General Electric Company, was one of the best mediators that we had. He apparently had just a natural, personal talent for it. Certainly General Electric had no union agreements at that time. The problem at General Electric, which