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up later. He put them up all through the Kentucky mountains, all through West Virginia, in Alabama, out through the mid- western mines. These posters all went up, with a picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt on them, and with great headlines on them, “THE PRESIDENT WANTS YOU TO JOIN THE UNION.” He had an organizer who took a furnished room or a hotel room in every community to sign them up.

On these posters he also fixed a day for a rally. It was to a mammoth rally and rallies were to be held all over the country on the following Sunday. The posters all said, “Come to the rally of the United Mine Workers and join the union. The President wants you to join the union.”

When I heard about this, I thought to myself, “Heavens, this is some likely individual.” Of course, I had met him by this time and had had my first conference with him. We heard about the posting of these posters from a couple of our conciliators who for some reason or other were in these areas. We also heard that there was to be a meeting on Sunday. So one of my first actions was to tell the conciliators to go to the meeting if they were the neighborhood and see what went on.

I called up Louis Stark of the New York Times and told him about all this. He was in New York then and hadn't yet been sent down to Washington. I said, “Now, you're the