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that we would enforce it and would proceed in the same way in which the New York State labor law is enforced. In the New York State labor law the Industrial Commissioner has the power, after consulting advisory committees, holding public hearings, and so forth, to fix all the conditions in a particular industry and that has the binding effect of law. When the code has been properly drawn up and there have been representative advisory committees, and a public hearing has been held, amendments are made to the code, and it is again announced that thirty days later a certain procedure will go into effect. Then it becomes law. It is very properly safeguarded, because it is a drastic regulatory function.

I was very certain that that's the right way to do it. That was the way I intended to enforce it. So we drew up all these rules and regulations and laid out this procedure. And I'm darn glad I did. It was extremely important that we should have done that. I never would have thought of doing it except for my experience in the New York State Labor Department where I knew not only the hazards of being charged with being unconstitutional, but the great hazards of cheating a little, that somebody would cheat a bit, that somebody would throw the benefit of this to a particular union, that somebody would recommend a series





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