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snappy automobiles and the fine houses. That had never been done before. It was ostentation and they saw what it meant.

They were very cordial to us anyhow. We said we wanted to go to the hotel. We went to the hotel, got breakfast and Packy told them to come around. He didn't want them to come and have a meeting with me until we got Johnny Flynn and Bill Collins there, and they were still asleep. It was very early. We went to the hotel, said we had to have breakfast and told them to come after breakfast.

Packy roused up Johnny Flynn and Bill Collins. We had had our coffee by that time. We took over the big room in the country hotel. This was very country, this hotel. You could smell it - pictures and all. An awfully nice Irishman kept it. (We had corned beef and cabbage for dinner - real stuff.)

Flynn and Collins came in. They told us the full story, with all the insides and outs of this episode of the day before when there had been a near riot. They'd had a dreadful time. The employers were using that as a reason for bringing in the state police. To get the state police you telephone the Governor that there is a state of public disorder. They were trying to get the mayor to join with them. The mayor was very alarmed. I put in a call to the





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