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modifications. Section 7(a) then provided that the employers in the codes recognized the right of labor to organize and be represented by persons of their own choosing in dealings with employers. It didn't seem, as I read it, any more significant really than the original wording had. That, to me, was largely because of my New York provincialism.

Nobody ever questioned labor's right to organize in New York. If they were organized, you might deal with them if you wanted to. All that Woll and Green's suggestion did was to write in the right to organize, in addition to the fact that the codes would contain a clause in which employers would agree to deal with representatives of the workers with regard to the matters that were of concern to them. It must be noted that it did not refer to representatives of the unions, but to representatives of the workers. That might have meant a company union. It might have meant a non-organized group of employees. It might have been anything. In the AF of L change of the original it might also have been anything, except that they added the words “the right to organize.”

That did not seem very much. Nor do I think that Green, or even Woll, saw very much to it as the basis of a future organizing drive, which it turned out to be. I think it just sounded better to them. It sounded like a good