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be represented. This business has taught them the lesson that they ought to have a union so this kind of thing can't be put oven on them again.”

I, of course, was busy on the employers' end most of the time. I finally got them to come down to Washington. One or two of them came and agreed to meet a committee of workmen. But they wouldn't meet a committee in Akron. That was too much, too humilating. You have no idea how humiliated employers feel when they have to meet a committee if they haven't been in the habit of it, if it hasn't been an accustomed thing. A great sense of humiliation comes over them. I began to understand it in those days, as I had never before - not just in Akron, but in other strikes that happened at about that time. The fact that their men go on strike, then demand that they be represented by a union and that the company recognize the union and deal with the union, is a sort of a statement of lack of faith to their eyes in the manager, the owners, the operator. One of the things they had always taken pride in was what good manufacturers they were, what good conditions they had, what a reasonable life everybody had in Akron, how decent everybody was to everybody else. They had taken great pride in that. The fact that the men wanted to deal through an organization