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at such jobs as there are. It's true that their wages have been reduced and reduced and reduced during the depression.” Their wages had been reduced. Their piece rate had been reduced. The “slingload” had been increased. They really had a grievance.

Also they attracted a great deal of favorable attention among the legitimate and organized trade unions. San Francisco is a union town, and always has been - going back for many, many years. Even the milk wagon drivers, the bakery wagon drivers, the ice wagon drivers, were all organized. The clerks in department stores were largely organized, as well as all the moving trades, the printing trades, and all those allied groups. So were the street car workers organized - the cable cars and the trolley cars. All these people always had belonged to a union. It was an old time established custom, So there had been stirred up in their hearts a good deal of sympathy for these poor longshoremen who weren't organized, who ought to have a union, whose union had been crushed. There was a disposition to feel sorry for them.

Then something happened. I never have known, and although MeGrady was there, he never knew, just how it happened. Almost without any preliminary warning there was a startling development. The various unions had a