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of the code was conceived from the very beginning as being essential. It was essential to have in not only marketing agreements, price agreements, and economic agreements, but cost agreements - that is, involving the labor costs. So they had accepted that.

Also, these men, although slightly behind the times in their thinking, were not so far behind the times that they at any point ignored their obligation to pay a living wage, or to have due regard for the life, limb and safety of their employees.

This was a time of transition intellectually for a considerable number of employers in the United States. These men in steel were socially minded to some extent. Eugene Grace was one of the best people I ever met or dealt with on accident prevention and had paid a great deal of money into research into how to prevent accidents. He had been of really great help on that one thing, which is certainly the duty of employers, but which in the oldest days employers had never taken any interest in. In building the Sparrow Point mill they provided for the best kind of cafeteria, or rest rooms, or reasonable sanitary arrangements, even for opportunity to consult physicians without cost on minor ailments in the plant. All those things were steps forward which would not have been done