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elements of competition among them that could be brought down to a fair level so that they would not be unfairly competing. The whole basis of the NRA was that it was to be composed of codes of fair competition. So what you did in competitive arrangements was all laid out and agreed to. That would make it possible for more of them to live and for the stronger ones to absorb the weaker ones. That was hoped for, at least.

Anyway, they went away with an agreement to appoint a code committee, which they did. I think right then they appointed their own code committee. They went over and made application to the NRA for a code which they hadn't yet developed. Then they began to work on their code and I lost track of the whole business. Except for the labor end of it it was not a matter that I was concerned about or had anything to do with, but I saw some of them from time to time, particularly on the labor factors that were involved. All that was expected of them was that they would agree to the labor conditions that were current in all the other codes. They, of course, all had, or had had, collective bargaining agreements with the United Mine Workers at some time or other. All of the progressive miners had walked in on them in some of the Midwestern areas. That had been the union that grew up in protest to John Lewis.