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This was clear. This was specific. It was a statement of grievances, demands and recommendations as to a method of settlement.

One of their suggestios was that it would have to be settled dock by dock, that since it was not organized each dock would have to be settled. They recommended that this board appoint an arbitrator for each dock, or a mediator, and that there be an agreement to accept his recommendations. They wanted to propose that to the employers.

The Board was so well impressed that they asked them to come back the next day. In the meantime the Board thought it over and reduced to writing some of the things they had said, some of the proposals they had made, making it up into a neat document. The Board thought that it might be a good thing to try to got some of the other groups of longshoremen who had come in to see them to come in at the same time and agree to this.

So the committee came back a second time. They had been very orderly committee. One man had done the speaking. Incidentally, I heard of all this through my daily telephonic communications from McGrady or Eliot.