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The only real complaint that they had against labor, and a justifiable one it was, was this inter-union war where- by Lewis had put down a rump movement which had tried to challenge his power and authority in the progressive miners. They had had war and bloodshed. They'd had shooting in some of these mining areas. Nothing was wrong with the employers in that case. It was a war between the miners themselves. That was a complaint they had and we assured them that we would do anything we could to adjust that matter and that the code was the answer to it.

At any rate, they appointed a code committee, but the code committee never could agree. They met and they met and they met. They couldn't agree on their own terms of fair competition. Of course I was not meeting with them. They were meeting by themselves and with a great number of experts. I'm not sure whether Johnson appointed somebody to meet with them or not. He probably did not until later.

This all takes a good deal of time. Months went by while they were working on this. In the meantime, business had picked up a little - not so much the coal business, as other business. With the picking up of other business there began to be some orders for coal. I think they perhaps exaggerated what might come in the way of orders, but they