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and the responsibilities they should take. That was being expressed through the building of these codes. They should have a responsibility for the conduct of a whole industry and portion of the economy. The trade organizations are made of individual employers. He felt that they should have some authority. Each code set up a code authority and that code authority was supposed to represent the interests of all of these people, but to make also rules and regulations, make the variations, make the exceptions, give permission to do this and that, or to postpone or speed up an action that was proposed. Of course when the compliance system was set up, it was set up to function within the code authority of each industry.

When he began talking about the trade unions, he had the same thought. They had an economic function to perform in our society. Their function was not merely to get the best possible wages and hours for the members of the union, but to function with regard to the whole economy of the country, with particular reference to the economy of the industry in which they were working, recognizing the relationship of the industry in which they worked to all the other industries.

He would say, “For instance, the cotton textile industry is an old and declining industry. It has reached