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and there are a good many Americans who, at that time, harassed by our rather rambunctious strikes that had been going on, taking place because there was a good chance and “you could get it now”, were tried by it, particularly in wartime, and they were impressed by this being a very valid method. I think a second thought, today, gives them a very different view of it, but at that time they thought that was not so bad--pretty good.

Anyway, that was the outcome. The I.L.O. was established. the I.L.O. people were all there. Edward Phelan was there. He was the head of the I.L.O. at that time, the directing agency. Carter Goodrich, who was our member of the governing body, was there. There were a great many I.L.O. people watching over every detail of the negotiations. I think we had a full tripartite representation there. I'm pretty sure that Zellerbach was there for the employers, the chemical industry man. I'm not positive it was Zellerbach, but it was somebody. It was a tripartite delegation that we had there, and plenty of observers and so forth.

The I.L.O. was set up in a way that was pretty satisfactory. Phelan, I think, did a major job on the thing. He was very brilliant at diplomatic work, and he was then the Executive Director of the I.L.O. He's a man of limited health, and couldn't at that time take part in





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