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terrible, almost unbelievable, to cause a strike, and that nearly never happens.

Strikes arise out of other things - desire for more wages, or different hours, or reassignments of jobs, or reassignment so the same people don't get the night work all the time, all that sort of thing. They also do come out of strange emotional situations, such as not liking the boss. More strikes arise out of causes that, if they're looked at objectively, look very silly. They just don't like the boss, for instance, and eventually they'll get mad and won't work until some change is made. Under those circumstances, if a union leader goes in he usually can iron it out.

I always thought that that was partially involved in the Bendix case where we had so many strikes. There were a few foremen out there who were so unpopular, and deservedly unpopular, that they kept a constant state of irritation and gripe alive. So if the Commies did get in there, or, as I thought more likely, some plain, ordinary German Nazi saboteurs got in there, they found plenty of men who wouldn't tell on them, because they were so sore at the boss.

At any rate, when the army and navy went out to hire labor relations experts they assumed that there were lots of them, and there were actually only a handful of them in existence. There are more now than there were then, because the time in between has given more opportunity for the





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