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So when they accused Bridges of being a Red, as they called him first, it didn't mean anything to me because I knew that they had accused others of being Red. We looked him up through the police reports and the police had nothing on him, so we seemed to be in a good position to say, “There's nothing to that.”

I was aware that earlier in the history of the Labor Department labor leaders had been run out of this country by the Immigration Services. I was aware of this from the Wickersham Report and from conversations that I had with Mr. Wickersham. Mr. Wickersham told me with his own mouth that he was sure that men had been run out of this country and deported by the immigration authorities on trumped up evidence that they were trying to overthrow the government by force and violence. He didn't put that in his report because they could not specify chapter and verse, but their conversations with immigrant inspectors led them to that conclusion. Also looking into what was available of a certain number of cases led them to that conclusion. He felt that it was a very hazardous and wrong thing to do. Wickersham was very strong about this. So I was aware that the Immigration Service had been used improperly to get rid of certain militant and effective labor people who were not naturalized citizens.