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it. They did not seem to have the esprit de corps, the sense of community, or the pride in their work or in themselves, that you find in other coal mining communities.

At any rate, I got onto this discussion by discussing the strike in Pennsylvania of the miners who were annoyed that they didn't have a code. Ed McGrady by this time was sort of half in the government. He was assigned to NRA. I had persuaded Johnson that instead of getting Hugh Frayne, who was a decrepit old person, down to sit beside him that he get as his labor thinker, labor side, since he wanted one, Bd McGrady, who was scheduled to be Assistant Secretary of Labor. So it was a kind of cooperative arrangement between McGrady, Johnson and me.

McGrady was dispatched by both of us to Pennsylvania to see what he could do about this mining problem in Pennsylvania. He couldn't do anything as a matter of fact. He came back with the news that they were determined to have a code and we had better go through the motions of it. That was very difficult because by the time that happened the mine owners had become less harrassed about their condition and were having some hope.

However, that was one of the big strikes that further cemented in Wagner's mind the idea that there must be some authority in the NRA. He began moving more and more towards