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if they wanted to be so private?”

It was true. The people in the railway station told somebody. A newspaper reporter got hold of it. He went down and verified that the car was there. So they knew that General Motors officials were in Washington, D.C. and started to hunt all around the city to find the place of the meeting. They tried to get information from my own office in the Labor Department but couldn't.

At the first meeting on Inauguration Day, nothing happened except we broke the ice. I wouldn't let them close the door completely. I was now in a position to keep in touch with Mr. Brown, Mr. Sloan, Mr. Knudsen and the other people. I did keep in touch with them. I kept calling them up and making their lives a burden. Sloan got very nervous eventually, very nervous as the weeks went on. He was angry and sour, and so forth. There was another meeting about January 28th or 29th to which Sloan and others came which we tried to keep secret but that was not the case and it was reported in the newspapers the next day. Sloan issued a statement on January 31, 1937 denying that he had agreed to resume negotiations after the second meeting.

Then John Lewis got into this whole picture. The