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in very simple terms so that you could follow them.

He fought hard and openly, but it was clean. He isn't a double-crosser. He's a very honorable and very faithful man. Even people he's had a great light with he would be entirely honorable about, entirely good-willed to them. He wouldn't undercut them. He was above that, and I'm sure he's still that way. I know all this, because I had a great many fights with him. After the OPA got started and we tried to get labor, management and a lot of other people to agree on a wage stabilization, I thought that the wage stabilization ideas that were being promoted were just crazy. I thought Leon Henderson's ideas were crazy and I certainly fought him to the end on it. We would have a committee meeting, and I was supposed to be authorized to call the committees together and select the members. This was before we had actually set up a wage stabilization project. Certainly the opposition that I put up to Henderson was as strong as anything could be. I hope I was respectable towards him, but there was no question that I disagreed with him. I would say, “I don't agree with you at all. I cannot accept this. I will not recommend it. I think you're completely off. I think this is selling labor down the river.”

“You know that I don't intend to sell labor down the river! I fight for labor as well as well as you do. I'm a better friend of labor than you are.”