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time John Steelman, and as did our conciliators. It was the only way we could deal with a union at long distance.

I suppose that Bridges, having had his original strike and original labor experience in a situation where the federal government intervened, as it did in the first longshore strike, naturally inclined to think of Washington as the place where you appealed when you weren't getting what you wanted in your negotiations. Also, I think, as I look back on it, that he realized that he had gained a certain prestige locally with the longshoremen, and perhaps with others, because of the fact that he had emerged under those circumstances. Because of that he called up Washington when he wanted help instead of calling straight to Ernie Marsh's office, or Fitzgerald's office, the local conciliators. He called Steelman in Washington. He called McGrady, or he could call the Secretary of Labor if he had to. I say it for him that I don't think he ever called me. There have been times when McGrady would give it up, or Steelman would give it, and when they would ask me to call Bridges, or to call our man Marsh, who would be in a conference where Bridges was present, and get Marsh to call Bridges out and see if I couldn't persuade Bridges to take a more reasonable, or more conciliatory, or more compromising attitude about