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that recommends constant psychiatric practise among workers as a technique for preventing strikes and labor troubles, as they called them. They are the people who think that the pattern of the garment workers strike in 1909 or so, which was spontaneous, was that they got mad and couldn't stand it any longer, and rushed out screaming. They think that's the way a strike is made.

It is out of that that the proposals that have been made so much in recent years for a slowing down process and a waiting period are made. The theory is that if they just wait they'll cool off - the cooling off period. They walk out because they're mad. The modern trade union fellow doesn't walk out because he's mad. It's a policy that's been voted on at a meeting. They know what the chances are of getting what they want, how they're going to trim it. They decide on this date because it's a date most inconvenient for the employer - it's just at the beginning of his busy season.

But the shirtwaist workers strike in 1909 was a true example of an angry, emotional outburst such as fiction writers often depict as the beginning of a revolution. They really walked out spontaneously because they were mad. They all got madder and madder. One person told one other person and they all got mad. People who didn't belong to the union walked out. Then, of course, they got madder. The employers