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group at once conferred with Bridges. They took him in. He was one of their temporary officers. The thing went along that way.

It was a very painful and difficult strike from that time on. It got more and more difficult, more and more painful, more and more vituperative as the employers got madder and madder as they couldn't break it up and stop it. This board of mediation was a sounding board before which the men could make their grievances plain to the community.

At some time in home, I think before the board made its report, there was some kind of a flaro-up. The men congregated in great crouds on the Embarcadero. The police tried to break then up and told them to get off it, get out of the way of the docks, and so forth and so on. I suppose the employers were recruiting people to go to work as “strikebreakers.” One must remember that there were a lot of men who were bona fide longshoremen who wanted to work, who didn't want to be out on strike. It was by no means a universal movement. This crowd, as they became better organized, were undoubtedly picketing and attempting to persuade those other men, by the picket method and by calling out to them, not to go to work. The police tried to break it