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to be the basis for the revival of the industry. They were all well aware among the mine workers of the implications of 7(a). As I've already stated, Lewis had staged a great organizing campaign in the coal mining areas where there had previously been no union, or a weak union, or a previous large membership of the United Mine Workers which had fallen away because of the open shop movement, because of the natural dropping of employment due to the Jacksonville Agreement, and because of the depression.

So the mine workers were in a position to feel aggrieved that there wasn't a code. That was the alleged cause, and perhaps the real cause, of their movement in Pennsylvania which took the form of a strike.

This, of course, still further accentuated Wagner and Johnson's idea that you've got to have some authority and make people do things. In the effort to get authority Johnson attempted to utilize what he considered to be the authority of the President. Now, it's never been entirely clear to me whether Hugh Johnson ever did understand the form of government of the United States of America. In his private conversations, as well as in his public statements, he always assumed that the President had the power, authority, prestige and jurisdiction of a king in a country which did not have a constitutional monarchy - the old-fashioned feudal king