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However, it never occurred to me that this case would turn into the dynamite that it did. When they began gossiping, we checked the gossip. We couldn't find any record that there was anything wrong with Bridges. Then there began to be a little more gossip, a little more gossip. On the other hand, I remember shipowners on the West Coast saying,”I don't care whether he's a Communist or not he made an agreement and he's obeying it.”Many of them, like Lapham, took Bridges for what he was. Lapham didn't ask what he thought, or what his spiritual background was. He just took him as a man who was organizing a union and was leading a union There was no false pretense about how everyone loved everyone else, as you see nowadays sometimes. It was just a straight argument on the part of the employers that they didn't want to pay high wages, thus paying more to load their ships, but since they had to deal with men who wouldn't work unless Bridges said so they had to deal with Bridges. That was Lapham's attitude, and he would deal with Bridges. He did say that Bridges was very difficult to deal with, very shrewd, would use delaying tactics as long as possible, but he said that that was a technique of negotiation and that so far as he knew Bridges always carried out his word. Once he gave