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At any rate, the newspapers of San Francisco, and following them by an hour or two the newspapers of the country, condemned this and began calling it a “general strike.” The term was used because when a lot of people do something, I suppose you can call it general. But the term was not used in any exact, specific, technical meaning. “General” means that more than one union is striking - a lot of unions are striking. It's pretty “general” all over the city. So it's a “general strike.”

Of course, I was very disturbed about it. We were on the telephone all the time. I sent Tom Eliot, who was the Assistant Solicitor in the Department, flying out there to give me a fresh report, to look into certain things, to be in touch with the lawyers on both sides, and to perhaps jazz up and jack up the Board a little. I thought perhaps the Board was delaying too much and being too easy going. Although McGrady was impatient, possibly Mr. Cushing and Archbishop Hanna were a little slow, and maybe it was creating a bad impression. They hadn't as yet been able to find anybody to come before them who could either specifically describe the grievances, or specifically make recommendations as to what the men wanted.