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another on the case. Some aspects of it have been told to me privately that have not been made a matter of record, although usually they were made a matter of at least partial record afterwards.

The longshore strike was finally settled in a very peculier way because the sailors got into this. The sailors are always mixed up with the longshoremen, because when sailors are out of work they always go longshore and try to got a job. That' always been one of the standing quarrels between the groups of workers - the sallors come and take their jobs. There was a feeling that the sailors were only doing it to fill in, they'd work cheaper, and so forth.

Then they saw the longshoremen were going to win something and that things were finally going their say, the sailors also walked in on the project and triod to get something for themselves. At any rate, one of the proposals an one of the things that was finally agreed to to settle the strike was that there should be elections in every port, and that the longshoremen should vote under government supervision - that is, under tellors appointed by the Labor Department - and vote correctly, under the Australian ballot system, whether they wanted to belong to the union or not, in every port. Then the