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of them signed an application to join the union, but when they went out they didn't have any union to speak of. They really had only a dozen to fifteen members.

This proprietor had played on just the wrong notes to be persuasive with his workers. I don't think he ever actually agreed that he would be bound by any vote, but before that second day was over we had told him that we had made all the arrangements, that the mayor and board of elections had agreed that the election machinery could be used, and that the vote would be taken, whether he wanted it or not. Gerard said, “We expect you to be bound by the results of the vote, as we shall be. If the vote is against the union, and they don't wish to belong to the union or be represented by this union in dealing with you, then we will not press it. But if they do vote that they wish to belong to the union, that they wish to be represented by that union and that they wish to have that union deal with you in collective bargaining arrangements, then we will sustain them and will press you even to the point of having you disciplined by the code committee.” That disciplining was the rarest thing. I don't think it was done more than on one or two cases. It was out of that that they finally got a compliance authority in every code jurisdiction.

He stormed and fussed and so forth, but we went away.