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could bring about a settlement of this growing dispute between the workers and the employers in many mills - but to make a study of the cotton textile industry to see what, in the manufacturing and labor relations situation, were the true causes of the grievances. They were, in particular, to study the “stretch-out” objectively and realistically, and to make a recommendation as to the number of looms that might be required of an individual, with due regard to safety, to his nervous strain, and what relation the wages, hoarly or piece rate, should have to the number of looms carried. The same thing was to be gone into with regard to the spinning.

So I appointed a committee. It had the effect of quieting down the strikes. The time had come when something had to be done to quiet them. This was a way to have Gorman save his face, to have old McMahon get back into the saddle again, and also to pull out some of the wild roughnecks who had joined Gorman's forces. It gave the people a certain assurance that this board was going to look into things and give a just answer.

I appointed John Gilbert Winant, former Governor of New Hampshire, a Republican, as chairman of this board. I appointed Robert Bruere, who had been a conciliator and mediator, and also a student, under Frederick Taylor and