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#Germany "Trade-union leaders, too, had a stake in the success of the ZAG and its related parity committees; they also wished to control the channels of labor grievances. This meant containing the potentially explosive factory-council movement, which threatened to displace the well-entrenched, nation-wide union hierarchies in favor of direct workers' representation in the plant." (p.63)

"The Stinnes-Legien collaboration and the [ZAG] had served as a critical moderation force through the revolutionary months. Jealous of their newly won privileges, legitimaly concerned about production and employment, the trade-union principals in the ZAG worked to forestall those social experiments that exceeded their own mild prescription as actively as did the industrial leaders." (p.65)

… wrote Charles S. Maier in "Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War I", published in 1975

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