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all over the United States. The automobile industry grew rapidly and people came from all over.

Needless to say, I had good lawyers looking into all the angles and all the ins and outs of what could be done about it. The general consensus of opinion of all the lawyers I consulted about it was that there was no statute, either of the federal government or the state government, which prohibited any such procedure as these men were carrying on. There never had been a statute against it because nobody had ever thought of it and it hadn't been done. If you had to proceed, there was complete agreement that the only authority that had any rights in the State of Michigan was the Governor of the state. The federal government had no rights whatever, except to act as a mediator, unless the Governor said that he was unable to keep order and he demanded federal troops, which he hadn't said and wouldn't say.

The Governor had powers to do whatever he thought was necessary, even if he declared a state of emergency, a state of riot, a state of breach of the peace. He could do that. If he declared it to be a breach of the peace, a disorder, then he could do whatever he thought best in whatever way he could. He had his own legal advisers, his own police forces, as well as the local police forces,