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Miller: to run this show, I'm telling you. I f m telling you 

 now that I'm going to run this show. If you want to 

 cooperate, all right. Otherwise, don't look to me to 

 break my neck to keep the labor peace here." And 

 they recognized it, and they never have forgotten it, 

 either; to this day everybody recognizes that. 



Baum; They expected labor trouble, didn't they? 



Miller: Well, they aust have. This I found out later. I was 

 the most surprised fellow in all my life because it 

 came out in the LaFollette investigation, something 

 that I had never known and which I resented very much. 

 The farmers had laid in a supply of poison gas and 

 this came out in the investigation. You know it's 

 illegal for anybody to put a weapon or money in a law 

 officer's hands to keep the peace, because then you're 

 bribing him to knock somebody down, and these farmers 

 had laid in a heavy supply of gas, tear gas. The 

 LaPollette committee asked me if any money had been 

 supplied and I said, "Absolutely not a dime, it could- 

 n't be. This would be illegal. You can't put a gun 

 in a peace officer's hand and practically invite him 

 to shoot somebody down just so that you can harvest 



