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had long lean hands, very thin, but very competent. He had a look of great physical strength, which he must have had, because he never gave himself any luxuries of taxicabs, or anything of that sort. He walked all over Washington and wherever he went. He gave this general impression of a man of great honesty, great integrity, respected by everyone, and having no notions whatever about the modern trade union and the modern techniques of dealing. He was very class-conscious, but dedicated to the life of the workers.

He had retained his organization of seamen on the West Coast. It was from him, and some of his assistants like Scharrenberg, who was his representative on the West Coast, that I got the first information about this milling around among the longshoremen who were discontented about the fact that they had no union. Their immediate grievance was that the “sling-load” had been increased, with no increase in pay. The number of men working in the holds of the ship and in loading and stowing the cargo was being decreased by an efficiency technique. The “sling-loads” were increased, although the employers claimed that there was no greater strain upon the men because the boom and the machinery and the derrick did the work of the heavy lifting. Men were not being asked to carry