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authority whatever in any state to do anything by force, except on the desperate request of the Governor that he's got a revolution on his hands. He then asks for the federal troops to come in to assist him. There is no other authority whatever for the United States government to interfere with what is going on in the state.

Nevertheless, of course, as Secretary of Labor, I was concerned. We were trying to get the strike settled by any means whatever so as to have an abatement of the tenseness and frenzy that was going on on both sides and in the general public, and get around to talking about what the real grievances were and not about the method being used. I was in constant touch with Frank Murphy, who was the Governor of the state. We had several conciliators out there, our best ones - Jim Dewey, who was very good at that sort of thing and unafraid of unusual situations. It was just as much of a surprise to us as it was to anybody.

The newspaper men tended to make a great story out of this. There wasn't much of a story to write about it, but by that time the newspaper people had come to feel that news was property and it was their property, and should be manufactured for them. They demanded to get a news story, something that could be printed, that