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the San Francisco strike. I will be in touch, through naval communications. I went to be informed of anything that is done. The Secretary of Labor won't do anything drastic without my knowledge and information.

“You all, of course, know the rule that in the absence of the President, the Secretary of State is Acting President. You all understand that. Any problems you have, that you think recuire Presidential analysis, just take up with Cordell.”

That was the wey it was left. He went off. A few days after he had gone to sea there came about in San Francisco a totally unexpected situation. Now that I think about it, I had appointed this board before the President left. McGrady was presiding over it. I had told the President about it.

One of the misfortunes we had in this was that the Chairman of the Democratic State Committee and his brother were the principal attorneys of several of the steamship companies, so that my attempt to deal with them in helping to settle the strike had been really very difficult, since they were really on the other side. That had proved, in the past, a very useful technique to et the local Democratic state chairman involved in settlements, because they would work for the public