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Packy said, “What do you think we'll find?”

He said, “There are a couple of policemen there on the bridge and they can pull the draw any time that they want to. They haven't, but they can.”

Packy said, “What are we going to do?”

The taxi cab man said, “We'll go out to the center of the bridge. Then stand up in the car and tell them who you are.”

We did. We drove to the center of the bridge and we stopped. Packy motioned to them and they understood that that was the signal to come on to meet us. About twenty men came forward. I think they were armed. I never would admit that I saw anything, but I saw things that looked to me like arms - of course, I couldn't be sure. They had rocks in their hands all right. They had that amount of armament. The leaders knew Packy. Johnny Flynn wasn't there. It was very early in the morning and poor Johnny was still asleep. Packy said, “You all knows me. I'm the mediator from Albany. This is the Industrial Commissioner.”

I made a little speech on the bridge and said that I had come to look into their problems and that I had come to represent the full Commission. The Governor had asked me to come, and so on. We wanted to hear what they had to say, what the problem was. Mr. Flynn had been in telephone contact