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this agreement, and that therfore there was no agreement, the miners stayed away again, learning by some underground route that one never knows about that there was no agreement. Lewis said, “They just know. They don't work when there's no agreement.” They just didn't work. He never called a strike, but they just didn't go to work. Then the government again seized the mines a second time. There had not been what you call a strike. They had just stayed away from work for a few days. Without much talk the mines were seized again and put under the operation of the Secretary of the Interior. Then the miners went back to work under I Ickes again, I think.

Of course, you see we had the usual religious service in the morning of Inauguration Day, 1945. We had the usual religious service in the morning for a few invited friends, similar to the one that had been held in other years in St. John's Church. But on account of the war, it was not felt wise for the President to go to St. John's Church, or to go to a public place like that. Therefore the minister, of that church had the bishop--horning in on this, by the way, because he'd never been present at any other. This was Bishop Dun.

Ah yes, and the young curate, who was a truly religious man and who had had contact with the President before, had volunteered to come to the white House and conduct a





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