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== Directive 10-289 ==
== Directive 10-289 ==
In April of 1957, [[Mr. Thompson]], [[President of the United States]], personally authorized Mouch to promulgate his latest rule-making scheme: [[Directive 10-289]]. Mouch won this authority mainly by complaining to [[Fred Kinnan]] (head of Amalgamated Labor of America), [[James Taggart]], Orren Boyle, and Clem Weatherby (who now functioned as ''his'' assistant) that he couldn't meet their needs with the authority he had. Directive 10-289 was an effort to freeze all economic inputs and outputs at present levels, to stop the economy from deteriorating any further. He was forced to make two major concessions:
In April of 2019, [[Mr. Thompson]], the Head of State, personally authorized Mouch to promulgate his latest rule-making scheme: [[Directive 10-289]]. Mouch won this authority mainly by complaining to [[Fred Kinnan]] (head of Amalgamated Labor of America), [[James Taggart]], Orren Boyle, and Clem Weatherby (who now functioned as ''his'' assistant) that he couldn't meet their needs with the authority he had. Directive 10-289 was an effort to freeze all economic inputs and outputs at present levels, to stop the economy from deteriorating any further. He was forced to make two major concessions:
# To permit Fred Kinnan to salt the Unification Board, a new special Board that the Directive established, with Kinnon's own representatives, in exchange for labor peace.
# To permit Fred Kinnan to salt the Unification Board, a new special Board that the Directive established, with Kinnon's own representatives, in exchange for labor peace.
# To permit James Taggart to raise his freight rates before the Directive went into effect, in exchange for a secret of Henry Rearden's private life that made Rearden an easy target of [[blackmail]], so that he would more readily sign a "gift certificate" placing his new Rearden Metal into the [[public domain]].
# To permit James Taggart to raise his freight rates before the Directive went into effect, in exchange for a secret of Henry Rearden's private life that made Rearden an easy target of [[blackmail]], so that he would more readily sign a "gift certificate" placing his new Rearden Metal into the [[public domain]].