So what could the foremen do about the union threat? It was time for a lesson in law. I walked to the back of the basement room and picked up the legal pad on which the miners had signed their names. I handed the tablet to the miner sitting nearest me and announced that everyone should make sure he had signed the paper. While the tablet was being passed up and down the aisles, I distributed copies of a federal government guide to the National Labor Relations Act. The fact that the booklet was a government publication was not serendipitous. It is crucial for the union buster to establish that what he is doing is sanctioned, even promoted to a certain extent, by the U.S. government. The labor law guide spelled out what an employer could and could not legally do to thwart a union-organizing attempt. The booklet would teach the miners the limits of the law, and I would tell them how to bend and even break those limits.