We'd rather die than give up. The union does not know. But they mobilize hastily to resist. By nightfall Judge Gadola announces that until General Motors again goes to court to give evidence that the court order has been held in contempt, there will be no ouster. The sitdowners remain in possession.
Flint breathes again.
At midnight a new crisis comes. The union mobilizes again on the streets. Finally a conference between union heads and the chief of police results in an agreement that if the chief will demobilize the deputies, the union will send the pickets home. The pact lasts till the next day, when the police break it by swearing in 600 new deputies, bringing the number to 1,000. The city's temperature rises, and General Motors gets a writ from the court for the arrest of the union leaders.