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on the other workers. An international organizer came in and he knew what to do to keep the thing alive, what kind of protest to make, what kind of publicity statements to give out to the local newspapers, how to go to the mayor, how to get the mayor involved. After all, these workers had more votes than the mill owners had in that town. It so happened, purely by chance, that these mill owners were very, very unpopular in the particular town. They were very competent, effective manufacturers. I discovered afterwards that they were one of the best hosiery manufacturers from the point of view of operations, getting the work done, having large production, low costs, and so forth and so on. They were competing on price with other manufacturers of hosiery. But they were not popular in the town in spite of the fact that they offered a large payroll.

So the mayor and city officials were none too pleased with this individual mill owner. Altogether, one thing or another, the publicity of the newspapers, the general excitement, the stubbornness of the se Pennsylvania Dutch, had contributed to making them, one, walk out, and making them say that they would stay out. They would have what they wanted. If they wanted a union, they would have it. They did not then belong to the union. That's really true. During the period that they were out I suppose that many