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and so forth. They didn't have a closed shop agreement on the first round, but they were, according to the waterfront employers, practically practising it by controlling the hiring halls. Only union men got jobs so they might as well have a closed shop agreement.

About this time one of our men from the Immigration Service, from the Seattle office (Bonham), came into Washington on a conference of some sort. He was the Chief Inspector of the port. He came in on just a routine conference. They weren't meeting with me, although of course I addressed them. They were meeting with Daniel MacCormack, the Commissioner of Immigration, and other technical men there.

He came down to my offices to my in the course of the few days he was here. He said, “I want to talk to you about some information that's come to us informally about this fellow Bridges in San Francisco.”

I said, “What is it?” He said, “Well, we got this informally. I haven't got it in an affidavit. I haven't got it in a complaint. I haven't got it in sworn testimony. I haven't got it in anything that we would ever call evidence. But a man came in and it's a man we know something about. He's not a very trustworthy man, but we know who he is. He has