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one set of men got all the work there was. When there weren't many ships coming into the port, it was bad that so many of these people never got a look at a job.

We thought the troable would peter out, anyway. In the meantime, these longshoremen had made a great many friends. They were unorganized and the other trade unions felt sorry for them because they had no union leadership. Joe Ryan went out, stayed a couple of days, turned tail and came back. He went out twice in the course of the strike, but he wouldn't stay. The first time he said he was disgusted with them, that they didn't know the first thing about organization, that they thought they could boss the union and so forth. He said he wouldn't pay any attention to them, and after all it was their own fault. After that I learned that he really was frightened out there. He had always been afraid that something would happen to him out there, because many of them regarded him as having sold them out in an earlier strike many, years earlier.

In one way or another these men had made friends. They had attracted favorable attention from people in San Francisco, who said, “They've treated you wrong. It's true. The unemployed men ought to have a chance