For more than a month a creeping paralysis of West Coast shipping has tied up ports from Vancouver to Mexico. When 12,000 members of the International Longshoremen's Association threatened to strike last March, President Roosevelt sent Mediator Henry Francis Grady to the West Coast to work for peace. Mr. Grady returned to Washington to declare : "We have a revolution on our hands." The longshoremen's strike hit early in May. Maritime workers joined them in sympathy. At San Pedro orange ship ments rotted in the docks. At San Fran cisco $40,000,000 worth of cargo stood unmoved in the dockyards while in...
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