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1 union membership will no doubt cause an increasing Page 1210 2 amount of alarm throughout the country as to the 3 health hazard. 4 All of this, in my opinion, emphasizes the 5 need for the immediate application of recommendations 6 made in our report of January 15, 1945. 7 In a nutshell, the recommendations were that 8 every branch sales office should be in intimate and 9 frequent contact with all business agents and their 10 sales territory. 11 The relationship should be sufficiently 12 close so that the branch manager or the industrial 13 salesman would require immediate knowledge of unrest 14 brewing in the local which might spread throughout the 15 United States. 16 All business agents are either sales assets 17 or sales liabilities. If the business agent is a 18 friend of the industrial salesman, he will inform him 19 of impending trouble, signed Ira Brought. 20 Are we stopping at 4:15, Your Honor? 21 THE COURT: Yes.