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Yes, they had, after a while, but they had held them up and made them have a difficult time getting into the mill. They were sitting on the steps and in the roadway that led to the door.

It wasn't a well operated strike. It was all spontaneous. There was actually almost no organization there. When it's spontaneous there's usually some violence, but after all this was the Pennsylvania Dutch country. Emil Rieve is one of that breed. They're a very phlegmatic, calm people - very stubborn, but very clam. The more he told them they couldn't have a union, the more they were determined to have one. That was about the size of it. If he had behaved himself kind of reasonably in the first few days, he probably would have gotten off without having a union really organized, because the union was not organized. Rieve had been trying to organize all through that country and he had perhaps a dozen people in the mill who had signed up with the union, were consciously union members and trying to organize. They had formed the committee that had tried to go in to see the proprietor to get an agreement. They were the committee that had been refused any collective discussion and had also been discharged. Their protest to the workers had caused the others to walk out.

I suppose these dozen men had put considerable pressure