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realized later that he was older than I thought, and that his acute mind wasn't as acute as it had been. He had begun to take his full sttention off subject that he had agreed to put them on. That was because he had grown a little older and wasn't cuite as vigorous mentally. But he was very much beloved in Sas Francisco by all kinds of people end generally respected by the working people, as well as by the employer group. The rich and poor alike thought a great deal of him, He had been a mediator in some othe strike, before I ever came into the picture, and he had a great reputation on that account.

The other person that I put on was Ed McGrady, who was the Assistant Secretary of Labor. That served to bring the Department of Labor into the picture. I had appointed them to be a board of mediation. It was an ad hoc board that was to do the best they could with that situation.

I had, of course, selected this board myself and devised the iden of having the board, had canvasred them and persuaded them to do it, but i asked the President to name them. The reason for that, of course, was to give them additional prestice. It enabled a man like Cushing to acdept such an appointment. The same was true of the Archbishop. The fact taht the President wished them to