When they called that strike they were confronted with a problem of electing delegates to attend a meeting of the union to determine what course of action to pursue. I was elected a delegate from the crew that I was working with. When we arrived at this meeting--I believe the meeting was held in the labor temple--we discussed the award, and the union leaders at that time were very frankly disappointed in the results of it. The sum total of it was that it led to a strike, and the members seemed to like the way I presented their case during the course of the arguments, getting ready for the strike. And when the strike occurred I was elected chairman of the strike committee and chairman of the negotiating committee. So we were again brought into public attention, and the Communist Party looked me up very quickly to find out what was going on and to try to advise me how to conduct myself in the course of that strike. They really knew very little about it. They learned a great deal from me because I was working with the men. And their advice was I must immediately fight the leadership of the union. I made a few feeble efforts in that direction and found that I didn’t have any good reason for fighting that leadership because they were carrying out the program which I had advocated in the original strike meeting to satisfy the needs of the members. Mr. TAVENNER. Apparently, the Communist Party was more interested in promoting its own objectives than it was the objectives of the union which was on strike. Mr. DENNETT. They were anxious that someone from the Communist Party gain control in that organization. Mr. TAVENNER. What was the name of the organization? Mr. DENNETT. At that time it was called the Ferry Boatmen’s Union of the Pacific. It later has changed its name, and, in making use of that name, I certainly want it to be clearly understood that using that name in nowise should be construed as meaning that it was any Communist organization because it was not. Mr. TAVENNER. It rather demonstrated just the contrary. Mr. DENNETT. And its leaders were not. But the leaders of that organization were making as sincere an effort as they knew how to represent the wishes and needs of the membership.