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factory. When the foreman couldn't figure it out, after milling around a while, he went up the next day to the floor superintendent. He said, “It's got me beat, boys. I can't figure it out.”

Then they began to got mad. By the time they left work the second day they were furious. They met on street corners and hung around discussing this. They talked to the newspaper reporters. The third day was Saturday, whore they only worked half a day. When knocking off time came, they sent a committee down to see the superintendent of the shop to say that they weren't satisfied and weren't going to leave the mill until they got satisfaction. They wanted to be paid in the old way. They-knew what they had earned for that week and they weren't going to accept any pay rigged up on this phony system, which they couldn't figure for them-selves. They said they'd stay right there until they got it fixed.

Of course, I think the men underestimated the extraordinarily complicated process that the employers had been through to arrive at this, and also what a complicated thing it was for the employers to cancel a whole lot of checks that had already been drawn and get out some others. That would have been a terrible