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which were very disturbing. In the end, after study, they made an excellent report. In the meantime, they had adopted a policy, which I agreed to and thought was sound, of putting into effect, so far as they could by mediation, any conclusions they arrived at, first of all, of course, as to the number of looms that ought to be and could be carried, and what the wage price adjustment should be with regard to the looms.

This I regarded as a happy outcome of that strike. In the meantime, Winant and Bruere between them had greatly abated many of the employers' opposition to the idea of a union. The elder of these two men at Avondale came to Washington. I had been to their mill before and I knew them. He came to see me in Washington. He was in great distress - philosophical distress - about the idea of a union at all. He had basic religious and philosophical principles - at least, basic to him - as to why you shouldn't have a union. In other words, he saw the mill as a unit and all those who worked in the mill as one band of brothers, working for the same end and objective. In other words, it was an almost ideal conception, which of course doesn't stand the light of day really. He recognized that the competitive strains on him were such that he wasn't able to pay the wages that true brotherhood would give to those