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extra conciliators that I had sent. I told them how I had sent Eliot. I told them about my contact with the State Labor Department of California, and how the State Labor Department, and McGrady, thought that the bakery workers, and the milk wagon workers, would go back very shortly - the next day perhaps. Then they would all go back. They would meet and pass high sounding resolutions about the longshoremen and then go back.

I explained that they had no grievances of their own, that they were not attempting to establish grievances of their own in this way, that they were well organized unions amply capable of dealing with their own employers about their own grievances, that this was a sympathy strike, in sympathy with the longshoremen, whom they believed were getting a raw deal, because they were getting lower wages and bigger loads. I told them that I was assured that it would be over soon, that they would pass resolutions saying what ought to be done, but would go back.

I telephoned to a very knowledgeable woman who was connected with the League of Women Voters, because she always knew what was going on in the public mind. She said the same thing, “There's nothing to this. They will go back. There's no real strike on their part. They haven't any grievances and don't pretend to have.