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So Richberg, or whoever was doing the drafting, drafted the bill in a form in which public works could be dropped out or left in just as decided. That was why it was Title II. Title I had to do with the lifting of the requirements of the anti-trust act from employers who made certain agreements under the National Recovery Administration, and Title II dealt with a public works program, specifying a yet unsettled amount of appropriation therefore.

In the course of the drafting this question of writing into the law something about labor's right to organize, or right to be represented, was discussed. We hit upon a wording, which I cannot now locate, which indicated that labor would have a right to be represented in dealings with their employers. At this point I had just brains enough to feel that it would be a good idea for me, as Secretary of Labor, to confer with William Green of the American Federation of Labor about this matter. As yet the trade union movement knew nothing about this proposal for a National Recovery Act. It had not been made public. Very few people were even on to it. It was still to be kept quite secret until there was something ready to announce. But there were, of course, continual rumblings that the President was planning “something,” and that there was a plan being formed that would help to stimulate recovery. There were wild guesses as to what it