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I said, “Yes, I see no reason why they shouldn't. What good is it going to do to stick it out? It just makes the thing worse. If people are mad, they get madder. If they've made a mistake, they'll make the mistake harder if they get angry. The employers could solve this right now by meeting a committee, I think. If it goes on much longer, they may not be able to solve it by just meeting a committee. They may have to do more than that. But I'm sure that if they would agree to meet a committee, and meet it under the auspices of Governor Murphy, or of our department - it doesn't matter, but preferably under the auspices of Governor Murphy - I believe that this thing could be settled in a very short time and we would have a cease to this particular kind of action.”

Then Garner went on and made a speech as to how reprehensible these fellows were, and why wasn't Murphy doing something? Why didn't he get out the troops? What did he have a state guard for? What was the militia for if it wasn't to run these fellows out? They had seized the property of private citizens. It was a seizure of property.

Although he didn't hear what I said, because he was sputtering so, I interrupted to say, “They have not in any way attempted to assert ownership and no court of