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be. What would he have to pay for wages? How would time work and piece work be estimated? What would the hours be? What about holidays off? This all should be negotiated and I kept saying, “But I have no authority on that. You'll have to negotiate.” “Yes, but I want to know what it is I'm walking into.” We talked that over again and again. They kept talking about the utmost they could pay, and finally figured out what that would be. I remember saying, “Now, look here, I'm not interested in what the utmost you can pay is, or what you can pay at all. My duty, as Secretary of Labor, is merely to introduce you to each other, to bring about a situation where you can talk with the representatives of the men who are on the sit-down strike, and bring about a cessation of the strike and the beginning of a negotiation. You negotiate it with them. You don't negotiate it with me. We don't care what you pay. We don't care what you agree to as your hours, or your working conditions, or the holidays off. Those are the delays that you and the men who work in your plants have to agree to. You don't have to talk to them yourself, Mr. Sloan. Anybody you designate can do that.