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However, the resentment was the same resentment that you see everywhere - a resentment against being challenged by men saying, “We have to have an organization.” But the employers agreed to meet a committee in Washington. If I would have my people, the conciliators who were out there, talk with the men and select a committee, they, the employers, would have a committee come to Washington and we would draw up an agreement. To that extent they would meet with the men in Washington and would work out something that was satisfactory.

This had gone on for nearly two weeks - I'm not sure it wasn't more than two weeks - before that happened. We had good conciliators out there. I think Judge Connor was one of them, a very able man. He had had excellent relations with the men. He told them to pick a committee and then he proposed to them that they go back to work. After some talking around about it, Connor persuaded them that he, himself, was putting his name to this, that he was representing the United States Government, and his word was good, wasn't it? That was done.

So we negotiated in Washington in an atmosphere not quite so tense because the men were actually no longer sitting down in the factories. They were operating.