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serve sounded impressive.

They didn't complete their work and report on that longshoremen's strike until the autumn of the following year, or so I notice in my annual report. They were trying to unravel the situation, which was very, very complicated. We had our two or three best concilistors there - these two men that were on the coast, and one or two others - because the situation on every dock was different. The men were not organized. Only a few of them belonged to the International Lon shoremen's Union, but there was no general union. The result was that they didn't have an actual organization that could speek for them.

McGrady would telephone to me about once a week, and sometimes oftener, as to how things were going. His great complaint was, “There's nobody to do business with Miss Perkins. There isn't any union here to get hold of. You get hold of one man and then you find that he only represents a small group, whater he really represents them or not nobody knows. But he speaks up for a few men on one dock. We can't set to anybody who seems to be responsible, or to have any ideas. They don't know why they're out, except that they want a union and they want vore wages. They want something done to have what they