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anything about things of that sort and I don't think I remember anything whatever about that 1916 longshore strike. I don't think that I recall it, or that at the time the new longshore strike broke out I recalled it. But, of course, it was described to me in great detail by many people at the time the longshore strike of '34 broke out. The union had been plain crushed. There wasn't any doubt about it. Not only the employers, but all the forces of the government united to crush the union out. There was a general state of alarm.

San Francisco was an old trade union town, strongly trade unionized. Then there began to be this terrible reaction against them. I don't know whether it began with the Preparedness Day bomb or whether it began at some other date, or with the MacNamarra bomb. At any rate, the whole coast was alarmed and as soon as any labor leader showed his head he was very likely to be accused of being a Communist, or an anarchist, or a Wobblie, or a syndicalist. As a matter of fact, the law in Oregon was the criminal syndicalist law. He would be accused of this by odds and ends of people, the talk of the town, and so on. He wuld not usually be accused in a court of law or in any serious affidavit, but it was a general accusation frequently finding its way into the public prints.