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Meanwhile the situation was worsening. For eight weeks it went on in a sporadic fashion, getting a little more serious as time went on. It had started with a few hours out here and there. Then it came to be several days or a week out. Then it would be taken up at another dock, and then another, but it was never a complete strike. It was partly organized, but it appeared unorganized. There was no International Longshoremen's Union to organize it. They were attempting to organize it. Insofar as they called themselves members of a union at all, they were members of the International Longshoremen's Union, but the way the indus try operated out there was dock by dock, company by company, and there was no cross-hiring. Every company had its own longshoremen and hired its own longshoremen, through its own hiring boss. The result was that there was no general pool of longshoremen from which they all drew. Although they were all discriminating against what they thought were troublemakers, or members of the old union, there wasn't a big membership of the International Longshoremen's Union. It was very small a nd spotty, and probably had a few members on a number of docks. It had been recognized as a strike of more than just spottines for several weeks, but it was never a complete strike, although toward the end of that period