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I said that I would. I called him up and asked him if he'd had any opportunity to think it over any further. He said that yes he had, that he had talked to Myron Taylor, that Taylor had told him he thought it was all right. He said, “Now, Taylor, of course, has more experience in these things than I have.” He hadn't had, but it was Sloan's way of looking up to the older states-man. “Taylor's had more experience. I should think that if they can endure it, we can endure it. I think that might be a good thing.”

I said, “That's fine, Mr. Sloan. I don't want you to think that I can promise anything on it. I'm certainly not authorized to do that. I'm feeling this out on my own. All I propose to do, and I want you to understand this, is to suggest tomorrow to the representatives of the union, whom I will be in touch with, that they explore the situation. I promise you, Mr. Sloan, that I will not tell them that I've talked with you, or that you have even given a hint that you would do this. The conversation ought not to be made, in any way, definite until you know that they will accept it, or that they will think that's tolerable. I know that they think it's tolerable. I know that you think it's tolerable. Then we'll decide who's to propose it, whether