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property, no disorders have been reported, except when ordered to leave the premises by the superintendent, they won't go. They stay there.”

“What's the Governor doing?”

“Well, I don't know what the Governor's doing. Surely you have access to the Governor, or your papers do. He made a statement last night and I don't suppose he's changed anything since that time. The Governor is making efforts to persuade the men to leave the factory. He's invited them to. He's been there and given his own good word that he would assist them.”

“What are you doing?”

“Well, we are attempting to negotiate this. We've got three conciliators out there. We're attempting to get them to agree.”

“But surely, Miss Perkins, you don't expect them to agree, do you?”

I said, “Certainly I expect them to make an agreement. That's the only way strikes are ever settled. Somebody has to agree sometime and you've got to start thinking about agreeing and planning about what you'll agree to at the very beginning.”

“Well, certainly, you don't expect that there'll be any agreement when this is an illegal strike?”