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the labor union, you might be unpopular with labor. If you ruled against the employer, you might get to be very unpopular with the employers. You couldn't tell what that would lead you into in publicity. People who were in any way comfortable in their present location were not looking to walk into that.

I remember that somebody, I don't remember who, mentioned to me as a possibility one Thurman Arnold, who was at that time a Professor of Law at Yale University, but who during that summer, was on some special mission. I caought him somewhere out in the Far West. He was on some mission for the government, It was not a permanent job. I was told he was a very liberal, progressive, vigorous, intelligent man, had an excellent reputation at Yale, and had what it would take in the way of courage. By this time I had found that a lot of people didn't have the nerve to take the job. It was worth trying. We had an all day hunt as to where we could locate him and I finally located him somewhere in the West. I think we got him off a train at some place where the train stopped to change engines. I began to talk to him on the long distance telephone. I tried to explain what the Labor Relations Board would be. He knew all about the act. That was good. He had





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