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The demonstration was to last only a few days.

The whole thing wasn't well-plannod or well-led. It wasn't even simultaneous. One group after another went on strike. It sort of spread from one to the other. Then it began to be the fashion. I'm asked why any strike takes place. There's no earthly reason why men should walk out when the president of their union tells them to, but if he can persuade twenty men to walk out, I guarantee that ninety per cent of the rest will walk out, I've seen them come out of mills and factories when they honestly didn't have any real reason to strike, any real knowledge of why they were being asked to come out, any real endorsement of their leader. But everybody's leaving, everybody's downing tools, everybody's going. It's a sort of a contagion.

Joe Tone, who was Labor Commissioner of Connecticut at one time under Governor Wilbur Cross, - he was a former labor union man in one of the highly skilled trades - machinist, or something of that sort, said to me, “Gee, I love to see then come out.”

I remember saying, “What do you mean, Joe?”

“Why,” he said, “you know, you see them going into the factory every day, walking through the gate, with