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and the English and Sootch weavers and spinners whom they brought over to work kept right on from generation to generation being weavers and spinners, never actually joining forces at any point. But the automobile industry was all new and the men, for the most part, who were leaders in it were mechanics themselves. Walter Chrysler was a good mechanic coming right out of the trade. A good many of the men in General Motors were also mechanics. Most of the people who were the operating heads of the automobile industry were mechanics, including Ford, of course, who came to their position because they were mechanics. Alfred Sloan was one of the outsiders who had introduced the financial management and wangling into the picture.

So they felt very at home with these owners, felt just like them, felt there was no reason why they shouldn't at some point hit a lucky invention and be themselves the head of an enterprise.

In the early days of NRA we got a delegation of automobile workers who came spontaneously to Washington. They came uninvited and with no code in preparation by the NRA or by a code committee of employers in the automobile industry. At this time a man named William Collins, commonly known as Bill Collins, who worked for the AF of L as a general organizer had been sent out