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I had secured from this German a promise to stay in Washington overnight and to be in my office the next day. I could see that he was pretty sore at Swope. He was more amiable toward me, merely because I was not Swope. I was the other person. It's the same thing that a child does - play off one parent against the other. I hadn't made the proposition. I hadn't lectured him as severely as Swope had, therefore he would explain himself to me. Therefore he came over early the next morning to explain himself to me and to explain why he knew he was right, how these people were sitting on the steps of the factory and clogging up the highway that brought goods to the mill, what a spectacle they were making of themselves, and how the police ought to arrest them, but the police were not arresting them for blocking traffic, but that's what they should do. It was my duty to get the police of this city to arrest them all for blocking the traffic. Had they committed any other depredations, I asked.

No, they hadn't.

Had they broken any windows?

No, they hadn't done that, but they had interfered with the passage of his trucks and even with the automobiles in which the officers of the company came to work.

Had they let the officers by?