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and exposing himself to the arrows of public opinion and to the danger of being shot down, to the hazards of the factory being set on fire - all of these things having been threatened - then he has now taken away all the moral aspect of his action. I cannot have any sympathy with him. That is a terrible thing to do. That is a wicked thing to do. If you're going to do what other people believe to be wrong, you must do it in your own person and you must bear the hazards in your own person, and not farm them out to somebody else.”
We both said, “Who is there who would come into a factory as an infiltrator to take the place of a sit-down striker, both of them motivated by wrong causes?” One would be a hoodlum who comes in to steal, loot and see what he can get for himself, and, second, a dedicated Communist who comes in to take that man's place, with a lot of others. They will carry on to a conclusion what the men who originally started the strike perhaps would not have carried on to a conclusion, at least to a wrong conclusion. He said, “Those two things are very bad and very hazardous. We just can't take it.”
I agreed. We were up against a real hazard when they began to infiltrate. Murphy got out orders to evacuate. Murphy used all of his persuasive powers to
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