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Advisory Committee individuals had brought along one or two others a piece along with them. So there was quite a body.

He had a blackboard put up and he started to lecture about what a trade union should be in a modern economy and in a modern society. He began by explaining how the machinery was so complicated that you now had to plan, how the economy was so complicated that there had to be central planning of the operations of our economy. It couldn't be left to chance any more, because look what had happened in the depression. So the NRA was a planning agency and all parts of it had to be planned for. Then he went on to describe the economic function of the trade unions, just as I have just done now. He went on to talk about the function of the trade association of employers and about the fact that neither one of them could function with regard to each to the other with regard to matters in conflict except through the government which was always the third party to this. The government representative was the third party in all this, keeping the thing in balance.

Then he went on to say, “Now you have two kinds of trade unions, as we see them today. Under the old system perhaps there was some reason for both of them, but now you have the vertical unions and the horizontal unions. Now, the horizontal unions are made up of particular skills.