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services, to go out with them, but primarily it was a railroad strike. That did have a definite plan, a definite purpose. It had weeks of preparation. Meetings of the full membership of unions were called. The demands of the men were made perfectly clear. Their program of what they wanted was made perfectly clear. When they went out they went out with a purpose, and they went out in a body. They had collected strike funds and had a war chost considerable enough to support the families of the men on strike for a considerable period of time. That's the only general strike I've ever had any connection with whatever, and I didn't have any connection with that except as an observer. That's the only one that has occurred within the lifetime of non now living. There's no record of any considerable number before.

“There have been general riots in some European cities, in some German cities, which were sometimes called general strikes. Whether they were or not, I don't know, but, at any rate, that Tecumseh Sherman describes is what an old man, writing a book to soll in his dotage, road out of some European theoretical book. That is pure theory and not reality. This kind of thing has never happened and this kind of thing is absolutely