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followed by any competent board in dealing with the next grievance if it was of the same kind and of the same nature.

At any rate, they went off. Before they left they had said that they would nominate Byrd to be their member on this grievance board. Of course, that was again very unfortunate. They had done this before they had gotten back to Detroit, had talked things over with other people, allowed Collins to do some nosing around to see if he could find out who was more representative than Byrd was, or who was better known among automobile workers. They had just decided right there on the spot in a kind of spontaneous way to have Byrd sit on this grievance board. That was that anyway.

The next day the General was telephoning around about this, the employers came down and were all in a dither about this, and they claimed they couldn't settle on anybody who would represent employers, but they finally said, “All right, our lawyer, Nicholas Kelley of New York, who is the counsel of General Motors, will represent us.”

I was astonished and delighted because Nicholas Kelley is the son of Mrs. Florence Kelley, who was my old chief and head of the National Consumers' League until she died, a social worker of great courage, vigor and imagination