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had an extremely busy day and night, being on the telephone half the night every night. I did very much resent the presence of the newspaper people following me around trying to find out where I was all the time, or who I saw, acting as though they had a right to keep a watch. They set a watch as to who came in and out of my office, who I saw, where I went. If I left the building, two of them grabbed a taxicab and followed me. It was as bad as that at this time. They set a watch in my other office.

By this time the newspapers had been full of opinions of people about how horrible this sit-down strike was. There were learned editorials about what a horrible thing it was, how inhumane, how unfair, how unjust, how wicked, how reprehensible. The most extraordinary adjectives were used to describe this human action. It was the work of devils. By this time they'd begun to see a Communist under every bush and felt that only Communists could have thought of this. Even today I have no opinions as to whether the Communists thought of it, or not. I'm inclined to the view that it was spontaneous. I think that the Communists leaped for it the minute they saw it, and realized it was a natural, because it is a natural. I know there were no Communists around in the Akron situation. So I know it's