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the world “communist” in those days, but he was certainly called everything else. He was wild. The speeches he made rivalled “workers of the world arise.” It was “everybody rise and demand.” He was quite young and quite illiterate. People got interested in him because he was quite bright - very bright. He took advantages of every opening, He knew how to interview the press. Many people, including Percy Grant, got interested in him personally.

Percy Grant evolved this great story - whether it was true or not I don't know - that nobody had ever been kind to Tannenbaum in his life. He had never met anything but opposition and of course he was going to fight. He was a man of energy. If you had nothing but opposition all your life, you would fight. At any rate, “Be kind to Tannenbaum” was the idea that a few people developed. I don't think Tannenbaum showed any immediate effect on it, but he developed great powers of speech. He had a little natural flare for oratory apparently and that made it very effective. He led them all around afterwards.

Several churches were then opened that they could go in. Then somebody got the idea that what was wrong was that the unemployed never had a chance to tell their story to the citizens of New York. They told it to the newspaper reporters, but it never was man-to-man, person-to-person talk. We were