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there was a lot of unemployment, there was a local brick industry that had no work at all, and so on. You would make them to buy the local bricks to build it, and so forth.

Johnson's great concept was in stimulating the major basic industries. He didn't think in local terms particularly. Of course, sometimes you would use local products for local building. But primarily the idea was to stimulate the total industry - the brick industry, the steel industry, the concrete industry, the carrying trades even. He had no objections to the railroads. In fact, he said, “The railroads will have the job of carrying the bricks, carrying the granite, carrying the steel to the place involved.”

The selection was really to be one of the intricate and delicate rewards which would come to manufacturers which had carried out this agreement. If the steel industry agreed to an agreement - he didn't use the word “code” then - which was dictated to them by the director (who would, of course, consult them, but nevertheless they were to be told what the terms of their code were), then they got relief from the anti-trust acts to make this agreement under government auspices, and by government authority. The agreement was practically dictated to them. They might contribute to it, and would definitely, he said. As a reward for that the government would see that just enough public works were