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It was terrible for this man Debs to start that. He didn't know who “this man Debs” was, but the papers said that he was leading a strike of the labor people. They weren't running the trains and they weren't running the mails. I just remember my father's explosions about “this man Debs” - “What's this country coming to? What right has he got to do that?” and so on.

It was many years later that Walter Chrysler, by this time the head of the Chrysler Motor Company, sat down and reminisced with me about the time that he was out on strike with Debs. Years, years later I was in Walter Chrysler's office on a Sunday morning during some automobile strike. Walter thought he had an idea that would be helpful and we were trying to find something as a formula. I went down there. He had a beautiful special office with paneled walls, little niches for his collections, old mechanical penny savings banks and things. Walter Chrysler was kind of a charming roughneck. He was very delightful and very rough. We got to talking about strikes and other things. He said, “Now look here, I know more about strikes than you do certainly. I've been out on strike. I was out in the Debs strike - the great railroad strike. I was out with Debs. Did you know that?”

I said, “No, I didn't, Mr. Chrysler. I never heard of that.”