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    "ocrText": "#141 -- 8 045\nTHE PRESIDENT: Yes.\nLORD ILLIFFE: I don't remember that.\nTHE PRESIDENT: There was something of that kind. I saw it in a newspaper\nstory. It might not have been entirely accurate.\nOne thing -- and this is off the record completely, just conver-\nsation between us -- thinking people are beginning to realize certain\nelements in the situation. This brings in California again, but I\nhave to keep it off the record because there is no use talking about\nthings like that out loud.\nIn the San Francisco strike a lot of people completely lost their\nheads and telegraphed me, \"For God's sake come back; turn the ship\naround.\" Stephenson and Roddan and Fred (Storm) would not let me turn\nthe ship around. They insisted on Hawaii. Everybody demanded that\nI sail into San Francisco Bay, all flags flying and guns double shotted,\nand end the strike. They went completely off the handle.\nWell, I kept in pretty close touch, which I would not admit to\nthe Three Musketeers. It appeared very clear to me that just as soon\nas there was talk about a general strike, there were probably two\nelements bringing about that general strike. One was the hot-headed\nyoung leaders who had had no experience in organized labor whatsoever\nand said that the only thing to do was to have a general strike, and,\non the other side was this combination out there on the Coast of\npeople like the editor of the Los Angeles Times, for instance, who\nwas praying for a general strike. In other words, there was the old,\nconservative crowd just hoping that there would be a general strike,\nbeing clever enough to know that a general strike always fails.\nHence there was a great deal of encouragement for a general strike."
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