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own contributions. It was effective. I told about my trip to the mills, what I'd seen, what workmen had said, and why I therefore felt authorized to speak for their interests, although in no sense their representative.

That was the occasion when I said, “I have come to the conclusion that the Department of Labor should be the Department for Labor, and that we should render service to the working people, just as the Agriculture Department renders service to the farmers. That is why I speak here today - in order to render a service to wage earners who have no particular representatives to speak for them.”

That was often quoted. It was the first time that it had been said that the Department was to be for labor and to give service to labor. That was that. I can't remember the details of the code now.

The steel manufacturers accepted the code. It didn't have any elaborate labor conditions. It just fixed the minimum wage and the maximum hours that would be worked in steel. But this business was a part of their non-competition agreement with each other. If everybody started competing with everybody else on wages and hours, then somebody was going to get the best of somebody else. The man with the lowest labor cost is going to be able to sell his steel at a little lower price and cheat on the code. So that part