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There was no street fighting, by the way, no rumpuses. They invented a technique of going home in brigades. A quarter, we'll say, would go home and the other three-quarters would hold the fort. The next day, or two days later, the other quarter would go. So they ont along and managed to exist. They brought food back with them and their wives continued to bring food.

Our conciliatore were out there. They were talking with the men and the employers. After a few days of this our conciliators said to me, “I'm sure this can be adjusted if they will meet a committee. It can't be adjusted otherwise because these men will not take anything secondhand. They've got to have it explained to them. Ther's got to be a committee of employers set up to meet them and they've got to be prepared to make some modifications that the men can understand. We think these other demands that they're writing out and putting in the papers for increased wages, shorter hours, more holidays, all that kind of thing, can be compromised on. The thing they're mad about is this method of pay. They're also now firm in the conviction that they're going to have a union. They are forming a union just as fast as they can form it. There was only a handful of members before. Now it's growing. They're all singing up and they want to