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them weeded out. But I hear from them now and then and we get word through gossip that there's great trouble brewing, great dislike of this ‘slingload.’ There'll be trouble.”

Pretty soon there was trouble. There began to be sporadic little stoppages of work on the docks. We had a men named Ernest Marsh, who was a conciliator in the Department of Labor and who was stationed on the West Coast. He, and a man named Edward Fitzgerald, had been stationed in San Francisco and Oregon and had covered the West Coast as concillators for good many years. Marsh was a very capable and very well-informed man. Fitzgerald was in some ways more capable, but not so learned as Marsh was. Marsh knew a lot and he had a great memory of all kinds of labor things, and who was who. He knew the difference between the good eggs and the bad eggs in the labor movement, and who could be trusted and who couldn't, from memory and experience.

I had Marsh and Fitzgerald go in and see what was going on. But the discontent was spreading rapidly. They telephoned to me and said, “I tell you who ought to come out here. Ryan ought to come out here. These men want to join a union. Of course, the employers are dead set against it, but there's newactual union