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the parts that had to be polished from a supplier, or to abolish polished metal on the cars. Along about this time care came out where all the usually shiny cars were either painted black, dark green, or whatever the color of the automobile was. And when they wanted a polished part, they bought it from an outside supplier.

The Auto-Lite was one of these outside suppliers. It was not a very large factory. It didn't have a very large output, but the workers in the Auto-Lite factory were apparently in touch with some of the workers in some of the automobile factories in Flint and in Detroit, which are not too far distant, and to which their products went. They went out on strike, being stirred up by this general emotion, for a remedy of adverse conditions. This was a new outfit. We had never had anything to do with them before. I disptached conciliators at once to see what was going on.

The conciliators telephoned back that they couldn't make head or tail out of it, that the group was not organized, that the employers were very recalcitrant and very angry, wouldn't have anything to do with them, that the group that had gone out on strike did not have a bona fide union organization, but that they had influence enough so that with every day that passed they were pulling out more and more workers. They had set up a mass and very