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not happening in San Francisco today. This is not a general strike in that sense of the word. There are a lot of unions whose men have stopped work in sympathy with the longshoremen who have no organization and are making no headway in their efforts to negotiate with their employers. That's all it is. It is a series of sympathetic strikes done for a demonstration of sympathy, without war chests, without strike funds, without any planned, coordinated pattern. It's pure accident that so many went out. The third layer went out, because the second layer of people went out. The second layer went out because the first layer had gone out. They'll be back without the effort of anybody, in just a day or two. What else can we do anyhow, except try to persuade them to go back?”

“Well,” said Cordell Hull, reading out of the law of the land and reading out of legal quotations, “the President has the power to act whenever local government has broken down, as certainly it has in this case, when the police are not able to keep the strectcars running - the workers just stood in front of them and wouldn't let the cars move - when the police are not able to keep the ordinary processes of life operating. Surely one can say that local law and order has broken down. I think that we should prepare to send in the