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 The first thi:ig to do was to finci n co;. ion around aned work from th; t
Administr tion in L ;,'shbiniton had unmuccessfully tried it, industry haC'.
tried it in lcIC York neither without aipjarently getting anywhere, but the
Administration member realized that un,.'.eri-e.-th all the strife, there was
a feeling, th-t given a fair chance, the Code was a heaven sent gift and
could help all a long way upon the roiL. oi' renewed success, such as they
had once known. It ''as upon this premise thi t renewed .:.d continuous
effort was uav.e by all concerned and resulted i.- the"let together" of the
sunmler and fall of 1934.

 iNew Yor: a unionized city had classification, they wanted such in-
cluded in the GoC:'., they were unsuccessful, the open shops did not want
such, cour.ld not see it, as applied to their own pr..ctice. All felt that
Section 2 of Article IV which treated cf semi-skilled taken in conjunc-
tion with -arzgraph one of the order q...; the hand writing on the wall
that classification was the death's he C. at the feast, the ogre to be
feared.

 SNotwithstanding these fears, the A'ministrator and his Deputy to
the contrary notwithstanding, the openly made statement of labor that in-
dustry was dodging the issue and deliberately so, the knowledge :that
Colonel Lea, had opposed its inclusion because of his realization of the
impossibility of writing a definition, the Code Authority did rmkce an
earnest, sincere effort to set up and define the term. It is unfortu-
nate that mere written reports cannot gi-e a true picture of the labor
and turmoil that went into this, the time consunied. Code Authority ramem-
bers felt they were charged with a dut,- which they tried to carry out. Un-
successful, of course the.. were, nevertheless they tried.

 Good came from it all, for more thi.n any othcr factor it brought to
pass a greater respect for each other and a willin-gness to see the other
fellow s viewpoint.

 Discussion of this and other labor problems resulted in the public
hearings of June and July 1934 and the )rotractnd negotiations respect-
ing hours, classification and wages thct never were settled at the time of
the Supreme Court's decision on N. l. A.

 It also had hearing upon the strike celleL in the summer of 1934
which gave great impetus to the migration from iner' York started some
years earlier.

 This migration brought in its, traii charge. by the labor union again-
st two ia..-uf.cturers under Section 7 (a) of N. I. R. A., in th:t the
owners had refused collective bargaining. These complaints caused fur-
ther distress and consumed a great amount of time upon the part of the
Code Authority and other interested parties. It w'as felt that the
charges were not justified for the collective agreement had expired and
the Union to enforce its demands had called a strike.

 In one of these two cases it developed that the partners of the
concern, because of their financial situation which prevented the obtain-
ing of s-.ifficient banking accommodation iLi hew Yori:, hF.d been negotiating
elsewhere for some two years for factory sites anm. financial help. The


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