Most regional chapters of the NCU-FONI combined their memberships, except for the international chapters: these all were grouped together, along with those American FONI chapters who wished to remain separate, as Local 404 - the local chapter for all itinerant and international nonconformists. Lawrence C. "Noodles" Fagan and his wife Elsie were made leaders of Local 404.

Under this arrangement, the like interests of all organized Non-Conformists were supported. Competition ceased. The Fagans were left to pursue their personal goal - the assembly of all individualists, throughout the world, in one group of like-minded people.

They continued in this course for the next six years until the death of Mr. Fagan in Marseilles, in 1931, of typhoid fever. Mrs. Fagan returned to the United States and remained the nominal leader of Local 404 for years afterwards. After she stepped down a succession of prominent nonconformists took on the leadership in Mr. Fagan's wake.

Throughout these years - through the Great Depression, the Second World War, the 1960's and beyond - the tides of nonconformism have risen and fallen with world events, and Local 404 has risen and fallen along with them. While recent years have been hard ones for organized nonconformists, we remain mindful of our chapter's proud history and we maintain our dedication to the cause.

In recent decades the Non-Conformists Union (as its name was shortened in 1937) has had the bulk of the publicity associated with our movement. But we of Local 404 have a proud and different, though complementary, history. We itinerant and international individualists will always remain faithful to the original principles on which our chapter was founded. Individualism will not be secure 'til all are unique, as we are!