With most of organized labor in the area arrayed against the RCIA, things got to a point where Meyers had to call in the entire organizing staff. Meyers guaranteed jobs to any local person who remained loyal to the International. Over the years, many called him on this promise, and he has always delivered. One strategy Meyers used was to reduce the dues by edict and have the organizers sign people up on the same card that announced the dues' reduction. Meyers held nightly mass meetings and told the people they were ten dollars behind the usual scale. When they went into negotiations, Meyers had a hard time convincing management they should offer more than the usual two dollars and then convincing the members they ought to accept the five dollars offered. The issue of back pay caused some hard feelings with management because the union's mailing list was more complete than Meyers had told management negotiators.
