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a union scale of wages, worked union hours, and had union rules to comply with, while others didn't. So it was unfair competition for any factory to decline to deal with organized workers. It was an idea that we all arrived at. Richberg drafted it, but we all agreed that that was an unfair item of competition. In discussing it privately Slater, Johnson, Peek and Sloan all said, “Well, of course, that won't mean anything because there isn't any labor to be represented in most places. There isn't any organized set of workers. If any committee from the local plant wants to come in and talk about things, they surely can. That's all right. Nobody denies them that so long as they don't try to push into any agreements and put a rule on them.”

So Richberg drafted a clause. Somewhere there is a first draft of this Section 7(a) and that was that clause we had decided on.

All this discussion was prior to the actual passing of the legislation. We were still talking about a plan which didn't have a name. In the meantime, as I've indicated, the three different groups that had been working on plans for recovery based on a systematic scheme of stimulation of industry and employment of people, were meeting in more or less informal style, and somewhat reduced in size. It