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he made. Beyond that, he knew nothing about it. I point out to you that in 1886, when he was operating, there were a very, very limited number of unions in the State of New York and a very limited number of persons belonging to those unions. He certainly never saw a general strike, or experienced a general strike, and all that he can know about a general strike must have been-reed out of books which were written by people who lived on the European continent. General strikes have not been common in American life. I don't think they've ever taken place. The Knights of Labor used to throaten a general strike and I believe that they did, on one occasion, pull a near general strike and that that was the cause of their collapse, because their members wouldn't stay out on it and wouldn't pull it through. Even they didn't know exactly what it was all shout.

“What he describes just doesn't happen. The general strike of 1927 in England, which is what has made the word come into common circulation today, was a deliborate, planned strike, in which the railroad workers had been out for some time, or took the lead in it. They asked all of the other unions who dealt, first with transportation, and then with supply, and then