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Nelson Slater was all right. He brought him along any time, also George Sloan. He often brought George Peek along. There was no animosity between them then. They were one band of brothers.

I don't know how many evenings they came out to Georgetown. It got to be so that Mary and I would say to each other after dinner, “I suppose they'll all be here before we know it.” Sure anough they would come. It was cool there. We kept it sort of informal. So they would talk about the progress.

As we worked it out, we began to add more ideas about these code committees. Then I began to see a great problem. Not only would there be code committees made up of the industrialists, “But,” I said, “all these programs that you are going to make are going to have a great effect upon the lives of the working people. I think in some way you're going to have labor in this picture.”

Johnson just hit the ceiling. “We'd just be a snarl! How could we have labor in on the cotton textile code, for instance?” Nelson just shook his head, “You know what the cotton textile union is like,” and I did. It was just a set of lunatics and grafters. It was a terrible outfit and not organized. There were only a few mills in the North that had any union in them. The great bulk of the cotton