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they had to endure. They had a feeling that they had suffered to build up this union and it was to protect themselves and their families.

The wide view of life and a movement which could benefit all working people didn't dawn until quite a lot later. As a matter of fact, most of it dawned after 1933.

Woodrow Wilson did have some social concepts in his political life and planning. The Walsh Committee was appointed by Wilson because there had been a considerable number of industrial strikes, and very violent and vigorous ones. Also the IWWs were acting vigorously and ostentatiously. There was a lot of talk beginning about industrial relations. The degree to which those relations were bad or non-existent are not quite known. As a matter of fact, there was so relatively small an amount of labor organization that the industrial relations, insofar as they were bad, tended to be sporadic. There tended to be some great big fuss of unorganized workers, or partly organized workers, with corresponding vigorous opposition by their employers. Then it usually petered out. Of course, this was the time when the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company was having trouble out in