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labor reporter of the New York Times. Don't you want to get onto this? Can't you find out what's going on?” Louis Stark packed his bag, got orders from the New York Times. and went out. He wrote a good piece for the Times about it, but he also described it to me in person.

“It was the most remarkable thing I ever saw,” he said. “Those miners came out of those towns. They travelled on any kind of vehicle. They packed themselves into these vehicles, which were as crowded as could be, and got to the town where the rally was going to be. They just came out of the mountains by the thousands. It was just like an army moving out of the mountains. The rally wasn't so much as to speaking. Anybody that the United Mine Workers could get hold of made a speech, but they had all the papers there for them to sign and they signed up by the thousands, which snowed that they always did really want to belong to a union, that they had drifted out of the union because they were forced out. The mine owners had forced them out.”

The slogan, “The President wants you to join the union,” was protection against the mine owners, or at least that was how it was represented to them. That was a very dangerous and bold move. Nobody else, so far as I know, ever printed such a poster, but the impression spread that this was the law. They kept talking about this wonderful Section 7(a) as