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a picnic, you can arrest him for trespass. But if you haven't posted the land, you may go out and bellow at him, but if you arrest him and bring him to a justice of the peace, the justice of the peace will release him and tell you that unless you post your land, under ancient common law anybody has got a right to use it so long as they don't damage it and take anything. You know how many of these ancient rights of way there are, and in order to keep people from acquiring a public right of way you have to post it at least once a year.

So I had several opinions from lawyers that this was not trespass and it was certainly not a violation of any other law.

In the meantime, the newspapers were screaming that it was illegal. “Illegal strike” was used just the way “illegal and undesirable alien” was used. They put the two together because it just seemed a natural, but it had no actual meaning.

At any rate, as I came into my office this particular day, there were a lot of newspaper men there. They wanted to know how the strike was going. I said, “Well, you must know about as well as I do how it is going. It's just exactly the same as it was. They've sat down and won't leave in one more factory. There has been no disorder as yet reported to us. There's been no destruction of