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call fairer hiring conditions. They're sore becuase in this period of unemployment the favorites got work and the others didn't get work.”

That was the report I got from almost everybody. Mc Grady was a very impatient man, as I was to learn later. He did not have that primary gift of the conciliator, which is patience above everything - wait, wait, wait, don't try to push anything today but wait until tomorrow, don't try to push anything today but wait until tomorrow, don't be in a hurry. He was a very impatient person. Archbishop Hanna was just the opposite. He was a very patient person- too patient perhaps. Mr. Cushing was an almost perfect person for the post. He had the respect of the employing ship owners and dock operetors, because he was known as a great lawyer and had undoubtedly been in touch with them about many things before.

So I thought the situation was well in hand. I believed, from what I heard from McGrady and what I heard from Joe Ryan, who had a connection with it by telephone and telegraph, and what I heard from Schorrenberg, that it would peter out. The strike was petering out. Cushing was trying very hard to gain a few advantages for the longshoremen. He felt that the thing that was needed was a slight wage incresse. He thought it was hopeless, as they all did, to think in terms of any different