if the striker was to be carried to a successful conclusion.
The workers did come up with something. They captured Chevrolet No. 4, the largest G.M. factory and the producer of all Chevralet engines. But Chevy No. 4 was a union weak spot and it was managed by Arnold Leng, an admirer of Hitler who kept it closely guarded. So the union leaders had to be slick in order to capture it. One of them, Bob Travis, devised an ingenious plan to take this vital plant. First, through a company agent, he made certain that G.M. definitely did not expect the union to try and sit down in No. 4. Next, after three more workers were fired in No. 4 for union activities, Travis called a meeting of Chevy union members. 1,500 workers showed up and demanded to take action to get these workers retired. The meeting was adjourned but 150 stewards and organisers were told to remain. Of these, Travis, Kraus and Roy Reuther picked out 30 of the "most trusted" and told them that on the next day, at 3.20 p.m., there was to be a sitdown in Chevy No. 9. Travis then took aside the two most trusted leaders of Chevy No. 9 and told them that No. 9 was a decoy and that Chevy No. 6 was the real target. They were to hold No. 9 until No. 6 was taken, But three other leaders from No. Band No. 4 were also told that No. 9 was the decoy and that they were to rally the men from No. 6 and bring them to No. 4 where the real sitdown was to take place. Thus, only six men knew that a sitdown was