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Relations Act. No one knew just exactly what that would really be, whether the government would be able to enforce on reluctant employers.

So the rumpus was really about representation. Of course, there was a long list of demands.

In Bascom Timmons' book on John Garner, so I am told, he says that I said that the sit-down strikes were “right and legal.” I never said such a thing. How would Bascom Timmons know? He's a liar and a fool and he can't listen. I know that.

The only thing that got me into trouble over this business in the newspapers was a question asked me in either January or February, just after the sit-downs had begun and when everyone was in an uproar about them. There were demands from everyone that they should be arrested and hauled out, that the police should go in after them, that the troops should be sent to shoot it out, and so forth and so on. I was on the telephone most of the day, telephoning to Michigan, trying to keep in touch with our people out there and with the Governor of the state, who after all had the primary responsibility if there was disorder. There are local laws to cope with disorder, with trespass, and with all kinds of things of that sort. The federal government has no