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system of hiring which would share the work more evenly, because, in the first place, that's inefficient- to rotate in the jobs-and it was not the custom of the community. the custom of the port had always been to hire at the head of the dock, and to hire a group of preferred people. It had been a real effort at one time to de-essuelize the longshore industry, which was one of the problems of the industry. Great reports were written in the early years of the twentieth century, and the late nineteenth, upon the casual character of the industry. There was parliamentary “blue book” report on the casual trades, in which the longshore trade was cited as the worst of all. That was the long complaint in the longshore industry.

Mr. Cushing realized that the efforts of certain of the shiponers, such as the Hawaiian-American Steamship Company, to keep smallners, group of men regularly employed, so that they had work several days a week at least on their ships, had been a step taken in an effort to de-cssulaize the job. He saw no way out of that. But it continued to he one of the great grievances of the men. Even those she had pretty stesdy jobs would join with those she didn't have pretty steady jobs in pointing out hot unfair it was that there was no rotation, that