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Mr. So-and-so agreed that he thought it would be done.

I sat there listening to all this, and I said, “Well, what do you think I should do? I've got an interest, all right. What should I do to show that I'm interested?”

“Well,” said Lewis, “I suggest, Madame Secretary, that you issue a call for a Press conference at 8:00 tonight in your office. In your office. Then,” he said, “I will be there. My Committee will be there. I will have the Committee of the United Mine Workers--we will all be there. Mr. So-and-so will be there, and the Committee of the Operators will be there, and Charlie will be there. Then you will call in the Press. They will sit on one side of the room. We will sit on the other side of the room. Then you will say to me, ‘Mr. Lewis, will you make a brief statement of what it is that the United Mine workers need?’ --and I will make a little address. Then you will say to the operators, ‘You have heard what Mr. Lewis says he needs and demands. What do you say in reply to that?’ Then Mr. Jones will rise. “(His name wasn't Jones).” ‘Yes, I have my remarks right here,’ Mr. Jones will say. ‘Have them all prepared.’ He will indicate that he is willing to give something.

“Then I will rise again. You will turn to me, and I will rise again, and I will make a concession. Then you will speak to Mr. Jones and he will make a concession.





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