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have more certainty in the time rate. They got part of that in the negotiations. The question of recognition was very, very difficult. It wasn't a full recognition, but they finally got down to something that was pretty close to it.

I remember these negotiations because there was one outsider who was new to Akron and had recently come with one of the companies who was bombastic, crude, modern, I dare say extremely efficient, and very loud talking. He was the one who at every point would say, No. We could have settled the negotiations within a few days if he hadn't been there. He would keep saying, No, and would then raise another question. Then it turned out that although he was now doing purely managerial work he had been trained as a lawyer and was very pleased with his legal ability. He attempted to draft all these things up, make changes, and so on, in a purely legalistic frame of mind.

I began to be very discouraged. It came to be Saturday. In those days there was only a half day off on Saturday in Washington. But I began to see that they wouldn't be through by one o'clock, so I told all the general help in that field - stenographers, clerks, statisticians from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and