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 the call of the proper officer. The officials immediately in charge could get the Governor, the Attorney General, the Governor's secretary, in five minutes by telephone."

When it appeared that trouble was in the air the Police Commissioner pinned his faith in Herbert Parker as his counsel to answer the attacks of the policemen. This Mr. Parker, it is interesting to note, was formerly a State Attorney General, an intimate friend of Coolidge, and a graduate of the same school of corrupt vicious politics headed by the late Senator Murray Crane.

What is more, when Mayor Peters appointed his Citizens Committee to make a report on the strike situation he picked those bankers and big business men closest to Coolidge so that all would work smoothly in the process of impartial investigation. At the head of this Committee stood James J. Storrow of the internationally known banking firm of Lee, Higginson and Co. Mr. Storrow is also a director and officer of the Columbia Rope Co., the Essex Co., the Fairbanks Morse Co., Franklin Foundation, Galveston Houston Electric Co., La Fayette Motors Co., Nash Motors Co., Railway and Light Securities Co., Springfield Railway Co., United States Smelting, Refining and Manufacturing Co., W. H. McElwain & Co., and Wm. Underwood & Co.

Among his associates were such powerful bankers and manufacturers high in the confidence of Coolidge as George E. Brock, President of the Home Savings Bank and Director of the Boylston National Bank of Boston, Market Trust Co., and the New England Mutual Life Insurance Co.; Mr. B. Preston Clark, director of B. C. Clark and Co., Treasurer, Cohasset Water Co., Vice-Pres., Plymouth Cordage Co., and member of the Executive Committee of the United States Smelting, Refining and Manufacturing Co.; John R. Macomber, a director of at least seven banking and commercial organizations; Patrick A. O'Connell, a director of at least eight banking and commercial organizations; James J. Phelan, of Hornblower and Weeks, and an officer of banks, lumber companies, insurance, and trust companies; A. C. Ratshesky, the well-known Boston banker; and Fred S. Snyder of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and banker.

Coolidge's game here was to wait for the decisive moment and then hit hard. Says the Report of the Committee: "In justice to the Governor it should be stated that at all times he assured the members of your committee that whenever called upon for a military force he would procure sufficient men—if they could be secured—to maintain law and order."

When the local constituted authorities had done all they could, Coolidge came in to clean up. He forthwith issued his order calling