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a lot of shops on it. It was the AF of L headquarters and perfectly all right.

I remember that I got a message that I was to speak at a certain hour at the AF of L. I think it was during the morning. Earlier in the morning I got a message through one of our conciliators - I think Ed Fitzgerald. I talked with him about how the negotiation was going. He said he thought it was going slowly, but they were getting some things ironed out. Fitzgerald said to me that Bridges, who was acting as the spokesman for this group of longshoremen, wanted to see me. I said to Fitzgerald, “Why should he see me? You're in touch with him. Everything is going all right, isn't it.”

He said, “Yes, but he wants to see you, and of course he knows that all the other labor people are seeing you. You're here to speak at the AF of L. He isn't in that. So he wants to see you. He thinks he's got a suggestion which, if he made it direct to you, would be useful.”

I said, “What's the suggestion?”

He said, “I don't know. He won't say. He just wants to see you.”

I said, “Well, what do you recommend, Fitzgerald?”