Because of his preeminent role in financing the meeting, Crane sought to intervene massively in the meeting's program to the detriment of Hayek, who served more as a secretary than as an intellectual organizer of this meeting (Steiner 2007, chapter 4). … At Crane's bidding, Hayek organized a full session on the problems of unions, essentially based on the works of Sylvester Petro.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 973