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habit of meeting regularly once a week - I think Tuesday night. Over a two-week period they began passing resolutions about the striking longshoremen at these meetings. They would pass the hat for them, and would give the collection to somebody to use for the relief of the striking longshoremen. That, of course, is always very risky when you haven't got a bona fide union, because you don't know who is responsible for the distribution of this money, but it was a gesture of good will.

Then they began passing resolutions of not only sympathy and support, but resolutions that they would go out on sympathetic strike. Nobody thought much about these resolutions, because what if the bakery wagon drivers did go out on strike - that wasn't so bad. All of a sudden on a particular Saturday morning, I think it was, they practically all went out on strike. The bakery wagon drivers, the milk wagon drivers, the ice wagon drivers all wont out. They were the ones that created the greatest protest and confusion becouse they tied in directly with the domestic life of the community. Then the streetcar workers went out. Then the building trades workers went out. You couldn't got a plumber or an electrician for love nor money, no