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control suffieiently to settle down and get a meeting with their employers, get an agreement on what they want among tnemselves. So the grievance board served a considerable purpose over this period of time in giving them time to think and time to organize and a reasonably prompt adjustment of certain of the more acute grievances.

Kelley proved himself to be persuasive with the employers and, although he by no means always went along with Wolman's decisions in the matter and they would frequently have disagreements they couldn't settle unless tney could get Byrd to agree with one or the other of them, nevertheless when he did agree and did think the thing was right, he proved himself to be very competent in getting an agreement from the employer involved -that is, getting an agreement to change the rule or the practice in this particular case.

In particular, of course, the grievances were over the liring of certain men who had either joined the union, or gone to meetings that apparently looked toward the formation of some kind of an organization. Over that the employers fought very bitterly. They didn't like it at all. When Kelley thought that the man had been wrongly fired, he would bring him around and get his reinstallation. The reemployment of persons who had been discharged for one