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therefore welcomed the Code -nl' lImost ll believed they must make
or attempt to live up to it, not of course 100-o, that would have been
too much to expect from any humnn agAlre.?-tion but in the main they
did so. The well known chisler of coarse was always in the picture
out co^aorrd to other industries. of this type fe'- c.rie- to our attention.
Hour end wg'e corirlaints that rep:cned the Y.RL.A. were small in number
-nd trade practice violations almost non existent. (See Exhibit R.)
'* etings were many in number (see pages 56, 57, 58, .) ane invariably
long drr-,n out.

 No industry member of the Board haed had previous knowledge of
nprlimFn-rtary procedure, hence protracted discussions and vociferous
beyond -'ords, and yet with all 'a keen desire to govern industry justly
Prd wisely.

 In an earlier paragraph is listed the committees set up at the
first official meeting. The com-oosition of these groups was widely
made end reports in the appendix (See Exhibits C, G, H, K, 0, P, Q)
sho-- the thorough and painstpkin,- care exercised in deliberations.

 Industry of course felt that "ith the coming of the new code era
miracless would occur and if our own procedure could have been quickened,
nfr- -ps seeming -airacles vould have come to pass. -Be that as it all
mnpv, certain it is, -'hen the end came, industry had begun to believe in
and feel that their Code Authority -"ere endeavoring to rebuild a newer
and better industrial view point, a truaer perspective and the horizon
hrd become clearer with promise of better things to come.

 For those who did not live with the industry during the hectic days
of 1933 and 1934 it is difficult t understand just v'hat if anything of
a definite nature was accomplished by all the long drawn out noisy
meetings of this Board and of industry itself. ror that matterr I,
mnysel.f, find it had to put thu finger upon concrete things and say this
was started, reached this point, and was concluded'satisfactorily or
otherwise. Specific things were done as referred to above and found
in the appendix, but I feel the most important accompl-ishment of all
,as a rebuilding of the spirit, re-examination of values, a weighing
of position, and a clinching of the determination to fight 6n and win by
f-ir mepns. None of these can be or are put down in records of
mLetings, they are not always or perhaps'oiten expressed but living
'"ith it one 'feels it in the air, and that 'was the condition at the end as
against the early days of fighting and refusal to consider the other
fellow and all that that entails.

 The memorandum written by the Administration memberr in July 1935
should, I think, be referred to (see Exhibit N, Section dated July 10,
1J35) for it gives a summary of this Code Authoritv's activities and
the picture s I saw, it.

 B. 0r:Fnization

 1. '.nile Article VI, Section 1 of the Code called for a Code
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