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in the unloading and the loading of a ship, was creating grievances. I got wind of this through Scharrenberg, who as representing sailors was always very close to what the dock workers were up to, or what was going on in their circles, and I suppose through Furuseth also, although Furuseth didn't begin to come to my office much until later. He had a great scorn of women. He just thought women were the biggest nuisances on earth. He was a real misanthrope. He disliked and distrusted all women. He'd never seen any in his life that were worth a penny. Of course, you must admit that a man in the sailor's trade has met some of the more unworthy and unlovely members of the sex. So he didn't like the idea of coming to see me. I don't think he really came near me until he had some special reason for doing it. Later he became a great friend of mine and went so far as to say before he died that Mrs. Florence Kelley and Miss Perkins were the only decent women in the world. He'd never known any others. He said that they were all right, they shouldn't have been women, they were too good for their sex. That, of course, was merely because we had agreed with him about something or other, but I had been kind to him.