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This is a sympathy demonstration.”

I tried to tell them that. I told them what we were doing, that we had people who were attempting to persuade them to go back and showing them how unwise and unfortunate it was to stay out, that the longshoremen wouldn't profit by their staying out. Actually what our conciliators said on the telephone to me was, “We tell them that the longshoremen won't profit by it, but, believe me, they are profiting by it. This kind of a thing has shaken people up. So long as it was only the ship owners and the longshoremen, people paid not too much attention to the troubles, but this touches everybody. Everybody reads the paper and finds out what the longshoremen want. A lot of people are beginning to say, ‘They ought to get something.’ Evon the newspapers are beginning to feel like that. However, it will blow over.”

Well, I tried to persuade Cummings and Hull. They didn't agree with me. “Mr. Cummings said, “I don't think you see this thing in a serious enough light. I think it is a very serious situation.”

I then was moved to say, “Mr. Cummings, I think I do see it seriously. I see the military moving in there from the Presidio. You can send a message to the Presidio and you can alert them at once. In an hour they'll be