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there was something wrong about that. The same thing, of course, was true with regard to the spinning, only it wasn't as measurable as was the loom production.

So when they would go on these offhand strikes, always at the top of the list of their grievances was the “stretch-out.” There would always be certain other grievances, of course. The floors were dirty, or their time schedule was inconvenient, as they had to get there terribly early in the morning, or stay very late, or some such thing. It was not so much that the hours were unduly long, because in that period of '33-'34 we certainly hadn't reached any period of long hours. If the people could be employed as much as six or seven hours a day, the firm was doing pretty well to keep going that amount of time. They were not working anything like full production. For the most part, a section of their weaving sheds was closed down and not operating at all.

But there would be other grievances. There were always wages to be considered. They wanted better wages and wanted more for their production. Also, they would always put in their right to organize and bargain collectively under the terms of 7(a).

The publicity attendant upon the flying wedge didn't get too much into the metropolitan press, but it did get