And so we said to General Motors that the solution had to be a first year increase, which had to be sizeable because we had to catch up with the lost position as against the cost of living and we had to make some progress.

Notes. Leonard Freel Woodcock (February 15 1911 – January 16 2001) was President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the first US ambassador to the People's Republic of China. While Leonard had been born in the United States his parents were British (though Mary was Irish by birth) and mother and son returned to the UK for the duration of the war.