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was only making them feel, without saying so, that he was going to do business with them in order to keep them off his back until General Motors had been pretty well ruined. That was in the making. I knew that. Although Chrysler hadn't put it to me in just those words, that was it. “Alfred steps out in front. He gives lots of advice. Let Alfred cope with this. Of course, I don't fool myself. Whatever General Motors does the rest of us will do part of, at least, before we're through. But let them worry.”

However, Hillman was so pleased at what he thought the prospects were. He had been given to understand by somebody that Chrysler might deal with them. It was the manner in which it was done that gave him that impression.

I talked to Chrysler about this Myron Taylor formula, asking what he thought of it. Well, he didn't like it. It wasn't quite right. Somewhere in my papers I have what Chrysler wrote out in his office one Sunday morning as a variation on this formula. The meaning was identical. The union might be recognized and dealt with with regard to its own members in the plant, but Chrysler, of course, couldn't take anything that had come from Myron Taylor. Chrsyler was a great individualist. Also, and I understood this technique, he wanted to throw