The San Francisco newspapers were more reliable friends of the Industrial Association. Throughout the eighty-three-day strike the four dailies alternated between misleading reports that the strike was “over” and lurid descriptions of a desperate city teetering on the edge of revolution. In late June, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article on “American Legion Week.” It began, “San Francisco trains its guns on communism this week.” The head of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce pronounced that the strike “is not a conflict between employer and employee—between capital and labor—it is a conflict which is rapidly spreading between American principles and un-American radicalism. . . . There can be no hope for industrial peace until communistic agitators are removed as the official spokesmen of labor.”