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Not all of them, however, had gone back to work. A good many of them stayed out, just didn't go back on Monday. There were quite a lot of people who didn't go back, although they left the factory. It was that wait and see stuff - they weren't going to go back until they had an agreement all signed.

Well, they come to Washington and stayed the better part of a week. I think we didn't get the top men here until about Wednesday, but the preliminaries had been done. We had a terrifically interesting series of conferences, mostly in my office or my anteroom, which was sort of a meeting room with a table where they could work. Everything was gone over with great care. The employers wore very loatho to give up this idea of this new method of estimating, computing and paying wages, although they recognized it had been the cause of the strike. I remember that Mr. Litchfield said to me, “I think I should have been intelligent enough to see the problem this new system would cause. I'm sure we could have sold this to the men if we had taken the trouble to have it explained to them. I recall, and I recalled this to some of my colleagues the other day, that when this firm of accountants first told us what it was we were dumfounded by it. We couldn't understand it