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The answer to all this was, “Well, Governor, how else do we get as good a hold on them as we've got now? We've been trying to deal with them for months and months and months. We didn't get anywhere when we just spoke politely. Now we've got some kind of a grip on them. How else do we get as good a grip as this? We've got something they want.”

Well, that's unanswerable. They were doing what was the most unwise thing to do, but their argument was unanswerable. After these strikes were all over I sat down and wrote my views on the sit-down strike. In the Annual Report of the Department of Labor I said that they were a greater hazard to the workers than they were to anyone else in the community, because it was so easy for them to get out of hand and because it was a kind of power that took unfair advantage and prevented the free flow of reason and argument. It was likely to do great damage to the labor movement because it was by this technique that all sorts of irresponsible persons could get their way into the situation.

Of course, this all went on for a long time and I took the brunt of the dissatisfaction from the press and other people. The President was all right. I kept him fully informed. I suppose I spoke to him on the telephone or in person at least every other day about it, but always