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was, but nobody outside of a very few in the government really knew. I felt that it was my duty as Secretary of Labor to inform the labor people and to gain their support and sympathy for the program. They, of course, had already put themselves on record as in favor of a big public works program, so I knew I had support from them on that point.

So I sent for William Green and discussed Section 7(a) with him, without telling him the whole story of what the recovery plan was going to be, that it was to relieve the employers of the anti-trust act, or just how it would operate. To assure him that a plan was in the making, that a program was under way, that a bill was being written which it was hoped would stimulate industry, I called him in. I told him what we had proposed to put in it that would assure that labor and labor's needs were not overlooked in any dealings that an employer might have with his workers. The right to be represented in dealings with employers would be one of the things that the employers would agree to in the NRA. That's what it really was - the employers, it was planned, would agree not only to a wage and hour program, and price and mercantiling practices program, but that in the codes there would be a provision that labor might be represented where they were organized.

I explained this to Green. I told him that I wanted