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He had no family, but many, many friends came. Both factions of the seamen's union came to the funeral. They all came to the funeral. They were perfectly polite and amicable to each other, so long as one side didn't get the better of the other in claiming that he was theirs. They both claimed him so, all right, the government handled the details. I don't know who paid for the funeral. We didn't. One or the other of the unions paid the bill to the undertaker, and to the cemetery for the lot, but we didn't have any struggling over the body. He was in a hospital for several weeks before he died, so that we knew he was dying. That was when he said, “Let the Secretary of Labor bury me.” So we did in Washington on a hot August day.

Anyway, getting back to San Francisco in 1934, I go a word through the seamen's union that there were these resentments, troubles and so forth. I talked with Joe Ryan, she President of the International Longsaoremen's Union, about it to see if he knew anything about it. He said, “They think they have never hired anybody who belonged to the union, but they have. After all, they have to get skilled longshoromen and there are plenty of people working there who are former members of the longshoremen's union, although they think they've got