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The ILU would always turn up in these discussions. Their officers, who represented only a handful of members, would turn up at all the hearings and declare they represented the workers. They didn't represent them, as everybody else who appeared made clear. They all said they didn't belong to the ILU. The union had a small group of members, just a few.

About the second morning that this strike was going on, things really began to happen. I had been up practically all night on the telephone. The difference in time was a problem. Something that was happening out there at midnight, which is about the time people conclude meetings and negotiations, would mean that it was three a.m. in the East. I would be called up for reports and conversations at that time, after not having gotten to bed until it was well after midnight here.

I should say, first of all, that this wasn't the first time there had been demonstrations in San Francisco, so it wasn't a new trick. I don't know whether there had ever been a demonstration that included quite as many unions, but I think so. I think they had had episodes of that sort earlier. It was not a new thing to old San Franciscans. I remember that it was not a new thing to Mr. Cushing. He recalled that it had