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Upon this matter Louis and I always agreed. We felt that the President should not attempt, and should never be put into a position to attempt, to be the mediator, or to be the man that made the settlements in labor disputes. I thought Louis' analysis was all right, and really pretty shrewd, but I would have felt more at case if the President had been in the USA on account of Hull and Cummings taking this extraordinary position.

At any rate, I think I did make some kind of a public statement, which didn't involve the President, but said we had been in communication with the President. I said that every effort was to be made to settle this, that the President wanted people to go back to work, and so forth and so on. I forget exactly what we said, but there must be some record of what we put out. This message had the effect of quieting Hull and Cummings and their idea of what ought to be done.

Of course, within a day on two - I think on the fourth day - they went back to work. Hull's book says, I am told, that he and Cummings agreed that no direct action should be taken, and that they sent a wise to the President urging him to send a message to both sides asking them to go back to work, but that that was not used because the Governor of California had the situation