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Scope and Contents Andrews wrote Morris Leeds and others (1/15/42) of his interest in regularizing the textile industry and stopping its practice of running three shifts for some weeks and then shutting down in others, The threat of the second world war was felt. Andrews cautioned the membership "to be watchful lest (by) their short-sighted good intention many of our labor laws be broken down" (2/1/42). Andrews complained to C. Edwin Gilmore (2/2/42) that "We are in a tidal sweep of federalization in the field...