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know that you're wild. Just keep on good terms and keep friendly, and let it go.”

Now, I'm pretty sure that this outbreak that Lewis made must have been in It was at the time that the automobile strike was on, and the automobile men were all down here in Washington and there was a lot of higgledy-piggledy going on out there in the Detroit area. Was Toledo the place where they had the strike that involved Auto-lite? Yes, and then it involved the Gas and Electric Public Utility workers. They all got involved in the same thing.

I appointed Charlie Taft, who had worked with me before. He had accepted a post as mediator, on a number of occasions, with some success. And this Auto-lite thing was more than we could make out. Anyhow, that was how he came into the picture.

They made some kind of settlement eventually.

Interviewer:

Taft did.

Perkins:

I don't think he did make a settlement, but anyway, it petered out. As a matter of fact, there were a lot of Communists run in there, we know now. We didn't know it at the time. We didn't know who these creatures were.

Interviewer:

This was part of Lewis's beginning C.I.O. business.

Perkins:

Yes. I'm not sure that Lewis was responsible for





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