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Blade became very excited. He began telephoning me, sending telegrams, printing editorials which he dispatched copies of to the metropolitan dailies in Chicago, New York, Washington, and so forth, in which he laid out the hazards of this strike, stating that there was no real grievance, that it was just a theoretical grievance and not a real one, that the strike was unwarranted, that something should be done about it, that these people ought to be taught reason, and demanding that the government do something.

In the meantime, we had been trying to get the Governor of Ohio to make some special move himself, but he wouldn't do a thing. So the editor of the Toledo Blade sent, among other people, Bill Lawrence, a newspaper man who worked for the Toledo Blade, or represented them, to see me and lay on the line the fact that something must be done. The newspaper outfit made a terrific rumpus about that place. They did not catch on, as we were catching on, to the hazard that existed there.

I became aware, and I learned this largely through my conciliators, that there was an infiltration into Toledo of persons who, as the conciliators said, had no business there. That is, they came from New York, from Chicago, from anywhere. This was the first time