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of regulations that would be particularly favorable to one group of employers, or particularly hazardous or impossible to another group of employers in the same industry. I knew that all those things were possible, that it wasn't right to put into the hands of an administrative officer or an administrative body the power to do these things without requiring that there should be a regular procedure and ample publicity on it, and the right to be heard by all those who might object, and heard in time so that corrections could be made before anyone was endangered. Also, I knew it was necessary to have in the whole operation a clause which recognized that there were cases in which there might be practical difficulties or unnecessary hardships in a particular enterprise, particular factory, particular industry, in the way of carrying it out, and there must be an opportunity for an individual to seek a variation, but that that variation must never be made except with full publicity, posting notice ahead. Then it must be limited to the specific item. The reason for the variation must be stated, and the terms of the variation itself, and the variation must be good for only as long as the particular hardship continued to exist.

I realized that there was opportunity for great





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