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Good points gmw, and ones to bear in mind when we are dealing with a topic like this one. I think it is important to distinguish between what we know now and what was known then, ie 1924.
However, as the book progresses, there is less and less excuse for the claim that the managers didn't know, even allowing for the world being a more isolated place in terms of the availability of such information.
The workers in Ottawa, Illinois, probably didn't read or even have available the New York newspapers, but it is hard to believe that the Ottawa management didn't have at least some idea of what had happened in New Jersey.
(Sorry to be slightly vague, but I had to return the book to the library, so don't have it in front of me to check timing.)
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