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That is why I have to say this off the record because, if you put me
in court, I could not prove it from the legal point, but it was there.
For instance, this Hearst man operated among some of the newspapers
in San Francisco and along the Coast, and they all agreed to work to-
gether, all the editors of all the papers, for a general objective,
and the objective was to encourage the general strike. That is the
fact, as I say, although I could not produce legal proof of it in
court. But the fact remains that they did discuss and encourage it
among themselves. In other words, they baited the other fellow into
it, not by offering him money but by baiting him into it.
The general strike started and immediately the strikers, being
young, did the silly thing of saying to the inhabitants, "You cannot
eat in that restaurant, but you can eat in that restaurant." Natur-
ally, the public resented it.
Of course they learn by things of that kind. They have got to
go through the actual processes, actual examples, and not interference
from the Federal Government or the President or the United States
troops. People will learn from a certain number of examples. We have
to conduct the country and essentially to conduct labor to their res-
ponsibility.
LORD ILIFFE: We realized in England that there would be a general strike
on before 1926, but, until the thing occurred, we were frightened of
it. But I am inclined to agree that no general strike can succeed
and that it did a lot towards making the labor element realize its
responsibility in Great Britain.
THE PRESIDENT: As a matter of fact, this textile strike, off the record,
would not have occurred at all if it had not been for a gentleman named
Norman Thomas. He is an idealist but, when it comes down to practical
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