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and complete definition. That's what a general strike is,” said he, informing me.

I knew that neither of these gentlemen had over been nearer a strike than you can get by reading the newspaper over the breakfast table, that they knew nothing about what strikes were, that they didn't even have an acquaintance with labor people, except as Homer Cummings as Connecticut politician had had some acquaintance with Connecticut labor leaders who they tried to get to support the Democratic ticket from time to time. It was with the greatest difficulty that I held my tongue on that occasion. I felt like denouncing both them and their informers and the book.

I knew of P. Tecumseh Sherman and was probably one of the few people in the United States who did. I remember that the only thing that I could think of to say was to say to Mr. Cummings, “Do you know who P. Tocumseh Shermen is? Do you know him?”

He said, “No, I do not. I gather from the frontispiece, or flypiece, of this book that he has been a professor at Cornell University at one time and that he was Commissioner of Labor Statistics in your state, the state of New York, Miss Perkins. What's what it says