“Now, gentlemen—and Dr. Rives—this will be simply an informal discussion, so that everybody can see what everybody else’s position in the matter is. We won’t bother to make a sound recording. Then, if we have managed to reach some common understanding of the question this evening, we can start the regular hearing say at thirteen hundred tomorrow. Is that agreeable?”
It was. The younger mediator, Quillen, cleared his throat.
“It seems, from our information, that this entire dispute arises from the discharge, by Mr. Melroy, of two of his employees, named Koffler and Burris. Is that correct?”
“Well, there’s also the question of the Melroy Engineering Corporation’s attempting to use strike-breakers, and the Long Island Atomic Power Authority’s having condoned this unfair employment practice
