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over to my office to say goodbye and I urged them to keep in touch with Bill Collins. After all, he was an experienced labor man. He knew how these things were done. He was accustomed to appearing before boards and committees. He knew his way around in the government. If they wanted to form a union, they would have to have some solid advice as to what you had to do in order to form a union. They would have to have some dealings with their employers eventually, but for the present their duty was to form a grievance board before whom grievances should be heard. They should discuss with Collins how that board should be set up and how they should appear before it.

Some of those who spoke up had the idea of a mass adjustment of grievances - all done at once by fiat and proclamation. Whereas Collins tried to point out, and I supported him in this, that grievances take place one by one. The grievance of John Jones in the Chrysler plant may be entirely different from the grievance of Sam Smith in a particular Ford plant. Except when it comes to wages, hours and general union representation, there is no such thing as a mass grievance. It varies from plant to plant, from person to person, from job to job. They have to be taken up one by one. One decision on some kinds of grievances would be a precedent which would be