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means all the people in the automobile factories belonged to unions. There were certainly many more who didn't belong than who did at the time when this particular union started throwing its weight around, demanding to make an agreement with the employers on behalf of all the workers. The answer would always be, “But they don't represent the workers. The workers in our factory don't belong to their union. Only a few of them belong to it.”

So Walter Chrysler said, “We will recognize the union as representing those persons in our factories who are members of that union.”

I don't know whether he meant that ill willed, or not. To him it seemed a logical basis. It was, as a matter of fact, about the basis on which the steel people had made their settlement. He said, “We will not deal with them with regard to the people who don't belong to them. We have no right to prohibit our employees from making their own complaints individually to the management of the company, not having to go through this union to which they don't belong, and which, in many instances, they don't want to belong to. No sir, we're not going to do that.”

That was what the big row was really about, I think, in 1937. It was the union, which by this time