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the dates, and that that is available to me whenever I can get to my files. It's all there.

I have previously stated that R.P. Bonham, who was the District Director of the Immigration Service at Seattle, Washington came into the office of the Department of Labor in the fall of 1937 on a conference held by the Immigration Service. While there he said to the Commissioner of Immigration that they had information - he said this very quietly, secretly and privately - coming into his office that would indicate that Harry Bridges, the well-known leader of the longshoremen in San Francisco and along the Pacific Coast, had actually been a member of the Communist party. The Commissioner of Immigration said to him, “Well, for heaven's sake, what is it? What is the nature of the evidence and do you believe it?” He said yes, he believed it, but he hadn't been able to get it in any form that could be called evidence, because the man from whom he received this information was as yet unwilling to make it in the form of an affidavit, or even as testimony. He described the man as a major or colonel in the Oregon National Guard reserves and he spoke of him as Major Milner.

The Commissioner of Immigration asked him how come Major Milner knew this, how was it possible for him to have known these things about Bridges, and Bonham