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plant, I made some inquiries as to where he worked before he worked there. There was a little doubt as to where he had worked before he had worked there. He'd worked in Pittsburgh, in Kentucky, or somewhere else. You just never got it quite straight. I made up my mind that he had got himself into the automobile industry rather recently. There was another man who was his running mate, whose appearance I don't recall well enough to describe, but whom I would know if I met him again. One sat toward one end of the table, and the other toward the other end, on opposite sides. They acted almost as a perfect team, without any necessity for exchange of words. Mortimer would never speak until just as it seemed that we had come to some agreement about some one point.

On this very first occasion they were just getting together to decide what their demands were going to be, telling the Secretary of Labor so she would understand what their demands were. Just as they appeared to agree with each other and with the conciliator of the Department of Labor who'd been out there, and with Bill Collins, who was supposed to be their organizer, that such and such was to be their demand, just as we had all agreed that that was to be the first demand, Mortimer, for the





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