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with the unions, once you said, ‘All right, they've got a union and we're going to recognize it,’ has been splendid. The labor people respect you. You've been honorable. You've been trustworthy. You haven't been afraid of them. You have spoken right out in meetings as to that you thought ought to be done. I can't promise, because I don't know anything about conditions out there, but I think you would get labor support.”

Well, that was that. But that was several years later. I've jumped ahead of my story. He had at least two or three terms as mayor of San Francisco, during the war, I think.

At any rate, in the course of this longshore business, after the agreement had been made and they had settled down, I made this visit to San Francisco in which I stayed at the St. Francis Hotel, and during which time there were a lot of political ructions doing on. Mr. Lapham on that occasion gave a dinner party for me. Peace had come over the part to such an extent that that was entirely possible. It didn't create any havoc at all. The dinner party was not a great party. It consisted of a few selected shipowners, of one of these Democratic lawyers, and of a couple of shipowners