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and perhaps you'll see that some day yourself, Mr. Grace. I thought of the experience as a morale builder, but I assure you that not one of them was a man that was going to make trouble for the company because they didn't have a union. But they did in their hearts think that a union would be good if the company would permit and deal with them.”

Well, that was about all there was on that. When I got back to Washington the newspaper people asked me about the incident with the Burgess of Homestead. I was a little embarrassed. I had gone up there all sweetness and light and I didn't want to make any trouble. I had meant to be good friends with everybody and I didn't want to make trouble for Burgesses, superintendents, the steel companies, priests, or anybody else.

Then the great hearing came and I spoke for the steel code. I spoke for labor. The meat of it was what Alex Sachs had prepared for me - a very good argument with regard to improvements in labor conditions, and why, a discussion of the unemployment in the steel industry, the way it was hoped this code would assist in overcoming the unemployment and give a larger degree of production and employment. The argument, facts, and statistics had been prepared by Alex Sachs, but I was interested in the subject by this time and the beginning and the end were my