Excerpt from Labor Relations Program, Vol. 2: Hearings Before the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, First Session; February 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, and 19, 1947 The council represents some employers, engaging sometimes in direct collective bargaining on behalf of employment and in some instances, only as a clearinghouse for research and coordination of labor relations in the city of San Francisco. Because of the importance of noninterrupted oceangoing traffic and its services to the national economy and the difficulties of main taining that service without interruption, I Shall ask the committee to bear with me while I give you some of the background of our industrial relations in Shipping. We have had a very long experience in Shipping, with collective bargaining, and I think that the members of this committee know that. We have had a great many interruptions and stoppages of that service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.