 In response, certain labor leaders advocated the formation of a new organization that avoided the faults of the NBTC.Frank Duffy, secretary-general of the Carpenters union, argued for the creation of a new organization which would be independent of but aligned with the AFL, and which would balance the power of local unions with that of national and international parent bodies.Duffy may also have seen the new organization as a way of forcing the AFL to stop chartering specialty construction unions.