What’s more, Coolidge put this new idea in the old language, that of Garman and his textbooks, rather than the modern labor-capital lexicon of Wilson and Gompers: “The action of the police in leaving their posts of duty is not a strike. It is a desertion.” “There is nothing to arbitrate,” he said, “nothing to compromise. In my personal opinion there are no conditions under which the men can return to the force.”
