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they got to New York. That was sufficient. The ship sailed. Dan and I came back into the dinner. We were greeted like we were heroes. This little strike that had lasted three days was upsetting the whole country. It was very disturbing. It was the most disturbing big demonstration of that sort that we had had. I think this was after the first of the longshore strikes. It was the most disturbing thing since then.

Of course, I recognized that there was some connection between this and the longshore strike, that the disturbed state of mind of San Francisco put it into people's heads to do things that they wouldn't have thought of doing two years earlier, because nobody had done it. There's always an epidemic of strikes, just as there was in the sit-downs. One group of fellows goes out and that puts it into the heads of people on the other side of the city who never thought about you don't have to work if you don't want to. Then somebody else does it. It just moves along. So that whenever there has been a strike in any one town, you can pretty nearly rest assured that there will be some others. I realized there was at least that kind of a connection between them.





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