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to business after he'd expressed appreciation for being seen at all.

Then he began to talk about his strike. I said I had been told by our conciliators that everything was going pretty well. He said, “Not so well as they think. That's what I wanted to see you about. It's not going as well as they think. Up to know I have been able to get the other docks to agree with us, but, of course, I haven't any authority. I don't speak for a union. The suggestion I wanted to make was that you send somebody out here to organize us into a union. We need a union very badly and we never can make any headway if we don't have it. How can I organize? I am not able to go and talk to Mr. Roger Lapham who is the President of the Waterfront Emplyers' Association. I can't go and talk to him. I don't work for his company. I can go and talk to one of the bosses on the Moore-McCormack lines because that's where I work, but I can't go and talk to Mr. Roger Lapham. He wouldn't see me. I don't speak for the longshoremen who work on his deck, and he knows it. I can't deal with them. I can stand up before your committee and can tell then what we think. I can recommended to this committee what I think would be a good way to settle the issues, what I think ought to be done for