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the pass through the Immigration Service. The pass was always given for any good and reasonable reason. In setting the trial on Angel Island the purpose was not to prevent the public from coming, but to prevent a mob from coming, as well as to have it held at a place where the Immigration Service had its own guards and security officers. We didn't have to get the town police in. We could handle anybody who got rough over there because we had our own guards who were stationed there. The hearing room could be surrounded in a minute. We could have guards in the hearing room if it seemed essential at any moment. There were so many threats that it seemed as though it might be. That would discourage the mob from gathering.

A great many of the witnesses that we proposed to call, tnese persons that Reilly had interviewed up in Seattle, had expressed themselves as being in terror of their lives, saying that they wouldn't testify because they were afraid they'd get shot at or stabbed, and they must be given protection in order to testify. They pictured a lot of Bridges' goons attacking them. At any rate, they demanded protection or they wouldn't testify. So we had to gusrantee them protection. There