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Co-le --'itin- should be an-ro-ched much more circumsnpctly than it
 "r. "-eFtE: no'c led-'e of vital statistics of an industry must be
I,.3. The historic backg-ound of !n industry must bP clearly laid
Sol-n.

S-onsors should be required to give this information. In addition
th'ey -ho'uld state the practices followed and the evils they wish
to correct, quoting chanter and verse in sunnort of positions t ken.

For expmnle: Had the Administration been iPven a georr.-nhical list
of .F.vnuf-cturerF end their an-oroxiinr te production together with a
breakdown of enromloymlent in the f ctories, many of our difficulties
in determining wage and hour questions would have been eliminated
and the renresentntion question 'settled almost out of hpnd.

Ter.ns rnd Discounts could also lihve been settled ouickly had wve had
real ftcts in th:e beginning.

As it developed these questions were in the main qettlecl reasonably
and well, but one cannot but admit that conclusions -ere based more
unon a mudrling through -rocess rather than an orderly scientific
one.

Industry viant self governance, a sound idea, but only in so far as
they 're "renared to accept an obligation should it be given, for
implied in thr-t are the trewaratory stages and these should be taken
befo-e authority is given.

Specific recommend tions

The bringing together of labor and manufacturers on Code Authority
Bords while theoretically sound in orinci-le does not workc out
s-tisf.ctorily in practice. If ,ll were normal in their mental
nrocesses, or to -nut it another way, if they could forget oast
differences, nerhp-rs it would have worked better. Unfortunately
thin frame of mind did not exist -'nd it was too much to expect that
it should, at least in a short snace of time. The Wnufacturers'
general attitude seems to be that labor has some loathsome disease,
whi!e labor, and I'm now thinking only of this particular industry,
acted in anything but a conciliatory manner, and as if they felt
they were dealing with a lot of so and sos. Good reasons for this
possibly, much to be said in extenuation for such I am sure, but
hone the less it does'not make for calm deliberation and order.

In case of this kind, if Codes come back, I would strongly urge
that lbor representation come from, not the operating local, but
one comolctely divorced from it. Such men could advise with the
local on points brought out only germane to this industry, practice,
etc. This will be objectPd to, if only on the score of cumbersome-
ness, but I am certain in my own mind, that it would work, be found
in the end much simpler, end the beginning of a better understanding,
from which would spring good feeling between both.

Most ill feeling springs from lack of knowledge and understanding.
If a mental condition obtains, that makes for closed minds, we are
not going to gain knowledge and understanding, hence friction and
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