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frightoned by the Los Angeles Times explosion. The MacNamarra brothers were structural iron workers and were convicted of having set off this bomb apparently to terrorize the owners against whom they had a grudge because they had not been able to make a union agreement with them on the terms they wanted. If I rememeber rightly the Los Angeles Times would not recognize any union, had fought them to a standstill, had publicly announced that nobody should recognize unions. In other words, there was a big anti-union movement out there. The bomb of the MacNamarra brothers of course didn't improve matters any. Also there had been a great deal of hysteria, and I suppose some basic reasons for it, during the First World War. There was a bombing in the Preparedness Day parade for which Tom Mooney and someone else were arrested.

Those things had all blended themselves together in the public mind of the West Coast leading them to a conclusion that large elements of labor were extremely radical, willing to enter into violence, and holding extremely radical views as to what the government could do and what their rights were. So there was this element of alarm and terror over the West Cosst. In 1916 there had been a big longshoreman and sailor strike which had been put down ruthlessly. This was long before I knew