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I'd often talked to Swope about he claimed was that they just couldn't have so many agreements as they would have to have if they recognized all of the craft unions. There were so many different agreements, they had such different bases, and they would be so unfavorably compared with each other, that it would just drive them crazy. If there was one union with which he could make an agreement that covered everybody, he'd be glad to do it, or so he used to say. I noticed, however, that as the CIO blossomed later on they weren't too anxious to make agreements with it at General Electric, but they did. They didn't like it too well even when they got the one big union, but they did bargain with it.

If all had been honestly conducted on the part of the union, I think it might have been all right. But they got into terrible trouble with the scrap between the electric workers' They got into trouble with the International Electrical Workers' Union (CIO) and with the other electrical workers' union operating out of New York which was a kind of a racket and which attempted to boycott the sale of General Electric goods in the State of New York by saying that their union members wouldn't work on the installation of products made by the General Electric Company. That was a pretty nasty way of waging an inter-union fight.