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to be an infiltration of strangers. Who those strangers were and where they came from we did not know. Murphy and I discussed often as to whether or not they were Commies. If so, why, and if so, from where. We hadn't thought of Commies as having much interest in strikes. They never had previously had much interest in strikes. That wasn't where they operated. They were political and theoretical people. These people were just as likely to be thugs as they were to be Commies. My own conclusion, after the fact, several years after the fact, is that these infiltrators may not have been Communists, but they were probably hired by a Communist outfit. They themselves were probably not Communists at all, but were just the same kind of people that you'd hire if you were handling a Pinkerton job. They were hired to go in there and take the place of the men who were getting too tired to stay, or to break up something, or heaven knows what.

However, there was hardly any damage. The damage done was very trifling and that could be put down to accident. There were a few windows broken, but that was probably hoodlums on the outside throwing stones in. The men said it was, and it probably was. Of course, the sanitary conditions were terrible. They had had food