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might be the point upon which they could bring about settlement without loss of face, if the men would accept it. If instead of being told that they were ordered to pay the wages, they would agree to pay wages equal to the wages paid by their nearest competitor, we might get somewhere. This had begun traveling around in our minds, so we set Downey, Flynn and somebody else to work with the men on this.

Then Mitchell said, “We'd better get out of town.” I said, “I don't think we ought to go away yet.” He said, “I don't mean that we ought to go away permanently, but we better not be around now that they're having these conferences because they all want to do business with us on the side. I've had experiences of this sort and they always try to get you on the side. We three better stick together and we'd better not be around here otherwise they'll be running to Lyon here trying to bring pressures from the employers' side and the workers will try to bring pressures on me because I'm an old labor man. We'll get involved. We just better take ourselves bodily out of this town. We'll hire an automobile.” Somebody produced an automobile and we took a drive. We drove and drove and drove all around that part of the country. It seemed that Mr. Lyon was born in Skaneateles. He wanted us to see Skaneateles, so we saw the little red schoolhouse. Skaneateles was a