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regard to the facts, notifying him of his right to be represented by counsel at such a hearing if he so desired. They set the hearing in Baltimore, I think. We had a big office there and it was a convenient place to hold it.

On March 2, 1938 deportation proceedings were instituted on the ground that after Bridges entered the United States he became a member of, or affiliated with, an organization that advised, advocated and taught the overthrow by force and violence of the government of the United States or that he became a member or affiliated with an organization that caused to be written, circulated, distributed, printed, published and displayed printed matter advising, advocating or teaching by force and violence the overthrow of the government of the United States. That last allegation was based upon some earlier decision which the Immigration Service had always pleaded.

I might say that I personally did not believe that Bridges was a Communist when I received this information. As soon as he became successful at the close of that strike and won it all kinds of ill-natured rumors began to float around about him. They began to say that he was a Red, this, and that, but there was nothing very definite. I still had the police department report of San Francisco that showed nothing but a perfectly clear background.