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San Francisco, that, as a matter of fact, they didn't know any longshoremen except those that worked for the Moore-McCormack line, but that they did truly represent all the longshoremen who worked for the Moore-McCormack Line on thier piers. They had with them a document which had been signed by several hundred men saying that this committee represented them, that they were not a union, but that they had had several meetings, had mulled things over, and after some talk this committee had been selected by the men, by acclamation and consent, to be their spokesmen. They had canvassed the things in dispute sufficiently so that they had a clear proposition to make as to what their complaints and grievances were, and also as to what means they thought should be used to settle their grievances.

Well, this was the first group that had come that didn't claim unlimited jurisdiction and representation, so the committee pricked up its ears and listened to them. It was also the first group that had come in that had a clear statement. The committee was of course delighted to get something that was as clear as this. Whether it was reasonable, whether it was consistent, whether it was possible, was a second thought.