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While Franklin Roosevelt was splashing in a glass-covered swimming pool, driving out to inspect Rural Resettlement and CCC projects, and generally amusing himself last week at Warm Springs, taunts were being hurled at him from a distance. Why, the taunters demanded, did he not do something about Sit-Down Strikes...
...Lippmann, had Mr. Roosevelt done about two serious shipping strikes? And a political critic, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, declaring to the Senate that "there is nothing of greater importance to the nation at the present time," intimated that it was high time the President took action about the Sit-Down epidemic...
...couple of grandchildren, his Secretary of State and Attorney General welcomed him back to the front of Political action. That afternoon he was closeted with Vice President Garner, Speaker Bankhead and Leader Rayburn of the House, Leader Robinson of the Senate. When they emerged Senator Robinson declared that the Sit-Down situation had passed its crisis. Mr. Garner said: "I am deaf, dumb and blind." Paterfamilias Roosevelt took his family to church on Easter, cast a beneficent smile on the Easter Monday egg-rolling for 53,000 children on the White House lawn. Unless a real strike crisis forced...
...properly enforced. . . . Give us our rights and we'll quit sitting down. You'll find out we're at least as smart as a jackass. We know even a mule has sense enough to sit down when he's overworked. . . . Henry Ford, you can't stop your workers from joining the union. . . . The best thing for you to do, Henry, is to get ready to do business with your organized workers. . . . We know that nine old men have been on a sit-down for the last six years. . . . I'm squarely behind the President...
Dwindling Mania. For the great Sit-Down Mania, though dwindling, had not yet exhausted itself. In Michigan, strikes in Reo and Hudson plants were still going strong. At Aurora. Ill., a sit-downer orchestra struck up Here Comes the Bride while a justice of the peace married two strikers. In Detroit, Checker Cab Co., which operates three-fourths of the city's taxis, had a drivers' strike, but many of the company's 600 cabs (which belong mostly in ones and twos to 400 individual capitalists) were operated by their owners...