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house in San Francisco. But the immigration people said, “You never can tell about these San Francisco policemen. They're always alarmed about something.” One of these men who was an Easterner and had been appointed Commissioner of the Immigration Service of the Port of San Francisco was Edward Cahill, a very fine man. He said, “I've lived here a long time and I love these Californians. I like it here, and all that, but these Californians certainly do get excited over nothing. They're always excited. It's something about the climate. They live on excitement. So whatever anyone tells you out here you always want to divide in two before you even start to consider whether it's true or not. Always say, ‘At the most only half of it is true,’ and then consider whether that's true.”

I talked with him considerably about all the immigration staff had heard about Bridges. He said that the police told them that they were sure that Bridges had been connected at one time with one of these radical groups that met in a particular house, but beyond the fact that they were certain they had no other proof, and they never produced anything special. But there was still this underground of talk. “They're all reds. They're organizing the International Longshoremen's Union and are all reds in there.” Well, certainly they were not