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frankness was the key-note and it was of course encouraged 

 by the fact that the speeches were not reported. A summary 

 of the discussions was prepared and issued for the informa- 

 tion of absent members, and brief paragraphs appeared in 

 the Wages Board Gazette and elsewhere. But no one 

 " spoke for publication," which is so commonly fatal to 

 sincerity. Had a verbatim report of the proceedings been 

 taken, it would be found to include many statements and 

 opinions which those who uttered them would have expressed 

 differently and more guardedly had they been subject to the 

 misunderstanding and distortion which is unhappily insepar- 

 able from public controversy. 



