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the Governor's invitation and went to the Governor's house first.

Murphy was thus doing all that he could in persuading the men to come out of the factory. He had a better leverage on that than anybody else. It was for him to decide whether he would call out the militia or not. He went so far, on one occasion, to bring some company of the militia into the outskirts of Flint and they encamped. I think that was his idea of letting the men know there was such a thing as a militia and that they had guns, that they were available, and the Governor could call them. However, their orders were to do nothing except report to the Governor. Anything that they saw that was disorderly was to be reported to the Governor before action was taken.

I concentrated my efforts at that time on trying to bring the employers, Sloan and his outfit, to a situation where they would agree to something. I wanted the Department of Labor, or the Governor, to be able to say to these strikers that General Motors would do thus and so provided they left the factories. The formula which we had most success with was one that had been used before. There was trouble with steel at this time.