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up. Somebody shot off a gun and two men were killed.

This, of course, was seized upon as a signal for a great protest, a great day of mourning and all that kind of thing. Hen getting killed in a strike is always unfortunate, but I have learned in recent years that it's the more radical elements in any group who make - what shall I say - a sentimental demonstration out of it, rather than being mad and angry that men have been killed, but not thinking it the occasion for a demonstration. A big demonstration was made on the day of the funeral, or the day after the funeral. They laid wreaths on the spot where the men had been killed. They got a lot of people who were not longshoremen by a long shot out to march in the procession, and so forth.

It had the effect, of course, of pointing up the situation, making everybody in San Francisco aware of what was going on, making them, I suppose, sort of half guilty that such things happened.

At any rate, at about this time the Waterfront Employers' Association began making, through some private detective agency the name of which I do not know, inquiries about Bridges. The local San Francisco police began making some inquiries about him. I've already said that the