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a government officer must always carry out even an understood agreement to the last item. It's essential if you expect to have the confidence of the people when you ask then to do something. So Bridges was always as good as his word, or better.

He was also very honorable about informing the concilistors apropos anything that was in tha wind. Brnest Marsh always said, “I wouldn't ask a better man to deal with than Bridges.” Marsh was our conciliator. He said, “Bridges always told me what he was going to do, always gave us warning.” When I would call up Bridges and ask him what had happened or what was going on, he would tell me the exact truth. I found it out by test over and over again. I could rely on what he said and I could take action and make my plans on the basis of what he told me being truthful. Everyone said that. The waterfront employers said that.

At some point here, after this rumor that Bridges was a Red and a Bolshevik was going strong, and after he was the undisputed leader of the longshoremen on the West Coast, they got into some kind of a new tangle with the Waterfront Emoloyers' Association. I don't recall now what it was. In the course of it Bridge talked not only with Foisey, but with the Waterfront Employers