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good, settling a strike and getting it over with for the public good and to support the administration, having no interruption in our business life on account of strikes. However, in this case I got nothing but screams of protest from them over the telephone.

The San Francisco Chronicle gave me some help on this. The board was also there working. They were a board of mediation. They were trying to make some adjustment between the strikers and the companies on a variety of docks. The strikes were conducted more or less dock by dock, and company by company. The International Longshoremen's Union didn't have much voice in the matter because they were represented by this ineffective, weak outfit that had a small office in San Francisco. Ryan had not appeared back of them. However, the strike, although not gene ral, was gaining in numbers out all the time.

The board, which I appointed, to settle the dock strike in San Francisco consisted of this Mr. O.K. Cushing, the very distinguished San Francisco lawyer. He was a very rich man and had a very strong social conscience. He had been in all kinds of civic works and public works. He was a very adequate kind of a man.

The other man was Archbishop Edward J. Hanna, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco. I