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“My information,” he said, “comes from the district attorneys, and from the United States Attorneys, who are in that district. We have been in telephonic communication. This is what they tell me.”

I said, “I suppose that the United States Attorneys are well-to-do gentlemen who live on the Hill, who have offices in office buildings in the central part of San Francisco. I doubt if they are people who are closely in touch with the bakery wagon drivers, or the streetcar operators, or the printers. I don't think they know what their intentions are, or what they're doing.”

“Oh, but they have the town tied up. Nothing is moving. Everybody is in great distress.”

Then I said, “Let me ask you, if you will tell me, what that book is yo're reading from and where you got the definition of the general strike.” I thought he was probably reading it from some court decision. The book was open. I couldn't see the back of it. I thought it was bound like the other books of court decisions and that he was reading from a court decision.

“I'm reading,” he said, “from a book on labor and labor unions by P. Tecumseh Sherman, who has written the definitive work on this subject. This is a very careful