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committees. The code authorities had just that power - to raise the wages in that industry when the circumstances warranted it, or demanded it. But Johnson had found it was too slow. They had been trying to raise them code authority by code authority and it was too slow. It had to be all done at once to work out with his ideas of economic controls - get all the wages up all at once this month and there'll be so much more purchasing power in the market and that'll be so much to the good in the revival of the economy.

Eventually Johnson persuaded the President to do it, after I had gotten the President to say no he wouldn't. The rally had been called. That was all right. I had no objection to having a rally and having everybody in, having reports made on how things were going. Just about a year had gone by since the NRA had started so it was a good time to have it. Everybody was to make a speech. The Secretary of Commerce was to make a speech. The Secretary of Labor was to make a speech. All hands were to make speeches. The Chairman of the Labor Advisory Board, the Chairman of the Employers' Advisory Board were to make speeches. Reports were to be read, and so forth. Of course, the administrator, Johnson, would make a speech. Then his idea was that the President should come in just before the