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can't expect the cotton textile industry to pay the same wages that are paid in a highly profitable manufacture of something new that has an enormous market, like electrical machinery.”

At any rate, that's what he had in mind.

By this time we had gathered into this Labor Advisory Committee a good many leaders and high officers of labor unions. As the codes were taken up one by one, this Labor Committee would not only study the code, but would bring in in it had no member in its own body that was familiar with that industry, somebody from that industry - someone from some trade union of that industry even if it was only a small trade union. They would bring in somebody who had had some experience in the industry.

The Labor Committee would go in to see Johnson. They would deal with him. They would wrangle around. The more they dealt with him, the more disgusted he got, because they didn't understand the function of a trade union as he saw it. He, of course, began to be harrassed by the same things that some manufacturers were harrassed by in the union structure. It was much the same thing that Gerard Swope was Harrassed by in the General Electric Company - the last that there were so many different international unions claiming jurisdiction over certain parts, or certain





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