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him to stay there, because I felt that perhaps one of the grievances was that the Board wasn't moving rapidly enough and that there were not enough people available to interview persons who came in - longshoremen who came in with something to say. They were not represented by a union she could speak for all of them. Therefore they came in groups. A few would come, or an individual would come, or forty or fifty would come and want to be heard. There wasn't time for the Board to hear them all. So I told Eliot to stay out there, to call himself an examiner and to do preliminary interviewing of the people who came in with something to complain about, or with a suggestion. I also told him to find two or three people, which he did. He utilised come of our conciliators. He got people from the State Labor Department. I don't know who they were, but they called themselves examiners and they did preliminary interviewing. Eliot also sat with the Board occasionally when they were going to hear somebody, and would try to speed the hearing up a little, point up some specific questions.

What we were trying to do all this time was to got the issues defined. They were not defined. The men's demands were not clear. The employers' opposition to these vague demands was not sensible or clear. There