Wo weeks, in accordance
with the provisions of the Federal Labor Act." "Well, how about my company?" Melroy wanted to know. "Your I.F.A.W. members walked

out on me, without any notice whatever, at twelve hundred today. Am I to consider that an act of your union, or will you disavow it
so that I can fire all of them for quitting without permission?" "And how about the action of members of your
union, acting on instructions from Harry Crandall, in re-packing the Number One Doernberg-Giardano breeder-reactor at our plant, after the plutonium and the U-238 and the neutron-source containers had been removed, in order to re-initiate a chain reaction to prevent Mr. Melroy's employees from working on the reactor?"
Leighton demanded. "Am I to understand that the union sustains that action, too?" "I hadn't
known about that," Fields said, somewhat startled. "Neither had

I," Cronnin added. "When did it happen?" "About sixteen

hundred today," Melroy told him. "We were on the plane from Oak Ridge,
then," Fields declared. "We know nothing about that."
"Well, are
you going to take the

responsibility for it, or aren't you?" Leighton insisted. Lyons, who had been toying with a small metal paperweight, rapped on the
table with it. "Gentlemen," he interrupted. "We're trying to cover too many subjects at once. I suggest
that we confine ourselves, at the beginning, to the question of the dismissal of these men, Burris and
Koffler. If we find
that the I.F.A.W. has a legitimate grievance in what we may
call the Burris-Koffler question, we can settle that and then go on to these other
questions." "I'm agreeable

to that," Melroy said. "So are we," Cronnin nodded. "All right, then. Since the I.F.A.W. is the complaining party in this question, perhaps you gentlemen should
state the grounds for your complaints." Fields and Cronnin exchanged glances: Cronnin nodded to Fields and the latter
rose. The two employees in question, he stated, had been the victims of discrimination and persecution because of union activities.
Koffler was the union shop-steward for the men employed by the Melroy Engineering Corporation, and Burris had been active in bringing complaints about
unfair employment practices. Furthermore, it was the opinion of