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and the experts. We ourselves and the experts in the laundry industry would throw in the information that had to do with the life, health and safety of the workers, that being the purpose of these codes - to protect the life, health and safety of the workers.

I talked this over with Johnson as well as I could. Of course, he wasn't a listener. He never listened much. But I used the word “code.” I remember I had to put it to him on the grounds of political strength and backing of the community. If it was announced from the very beginning that there would be committees in every code and that the code would not be thought up by a director alone, but the committee would do it, things would move more smoothly. He took to the idea readily, with some enthusiasm.

Nelson Slater, who was either in the Tugwell or the Richberg group, was having a great effect upon Hugh's mind. He's a textile manufacturer. He was youngish thon, of course, but that was twenty years ago. The Slater mills are the pioneer foremost cotton textile manufacturers in this country. They're no longer the greatest, but it was old Mr. Slater who went to England in 1740, or perhaps a little earlier - the first part of the 18th Century. Nobody knew him. He got himself a job in a cotton mill. At that time this English would not send any machinery of any kind to this