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well in hand. Naturally a purely local strike involving the service rades of San Francisco was a matter of grave concern to the California authorities, including the Governor and the State Labor Department. The State Labor Department was operating for all it was worth. I was trying to keep them working mostly on the incidental trade walkouts that had nothing to do wish longshore. I'm sure the Governor of California said he had it in hand. Hull probably telephoned him and he said he had it in hand.

However, as to the part about not taking direct action, Hull apparently just forget what he had said then he wrote the book. I never saw the message they sent the President. They sent it without showing it to me, as I sent mine without showing it to them.

Well, after this outburst of the other service tradesmen, we continued, of course, with the attempt to settle the longshoremen's strike as best we could, operating entirely through this board.

At, or about this time, perhaps shortly after this, while it was still summer - I'm not too sure about those dates - I not a report that they thought they more making progress. By this time I had sent Eliot. I had sent Eliot out during the “general strike” and had told