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about a man's owning his job. Nobody had paid much attention to that. But you'd be surprised at the number of people, admittedly highbrow intellectuals, who began to hark back to that. Some of the newspaper men at that time harked back to that. They said, “Well, now, suppose that they own their jobs and are only staying with their jobs.”

I remember saying, “Well, that's a pretty theoretical question. I don't know anything about that. We're trying to get the men out of the factories and we're trying at the same time to get the beginnings of an agreement. That's what we want to do.”

Well, comebody went out and printed that Miss Perkins had said the strike was legal. As a matter of fact, it was legal. Any strike is legal. Men have a right not to work. However, all I had done was to raise the question in their minds, not make a definite statement of fact. Well, you know, I learned something from that. You should never raise a question that involves the exercise of the intellect when people are angry.

I think it is true, as you say, that often when these stories don't come out the way they were said in the newspapers it is the fault of the headline. Most people don't read much below the headline. They get angry when they read the headline. Even if they do read the