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I remember that as he went out the door, Gerard said to me, “He'll accept it. He will act on what the results of this election are. Now it's up to you to get this thing moving.”

So we got the thing moving. I think the vote was taken two or three days later - just as soon as they could get the polling places open and the board of elections assembled. I think it was two days later, giving the union no special time to make any campaign. That, I think, was fair. They didn't have time to make any long drawn out campaign. The employer said to us, “If the union makes crazy statements, I will make a statement.”

I remember that Gerard said, “That's all right. You can make a statement, put it in the press, tack it up on the door of your factory. That's all right. This is a free country. Say what you please and let the union say what it pleases.” The employer was very angry with what the union had put in the papers as advertising about his mill and his refusal.

So he doped out something that appeared in the paper the next day - the local papers - and it was much weaker than the statement he had made to us, because when he came to print it, he somehow found himself having to be bound by the facts.

Anyway, they took the vote and the vote was overwhelmingly