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very much disturbed, some years earlier by the operations of the IWW, the “Wobblies” as they called them. I don't know to this day all that the Wobblies did, but they had at least created a great deal of alarm and terror in that area where they had been strong. Several organizations of a semi-vigilante nature were formed. I don't remember whether the organization that Bonham referred to actually had the word “vigilante” in its name, or not, but at least Bonham referred to it as one of the vigilante organizations, whatever that may have been.

I remember that it sounded to me an awfully peculiar thing for a man depicted by Bonham as being a person of standing to have also become an undercover agent so well accepted with the Communists that he could go with them to places, because Bonham said he knew that. Milner had been with them to meetings, knew who was who, had kept close to them, had done so for a number of years and knew all that there was to know about what the “radicals,” as he called them, what the Reds were doing on the West Coast.

Anyhow, we told Bonham to go back and that if this was the case, to certainly proceed with great care and to explore Milner's testimony further, insisting that he make a statement under oath before at least two of the immigration officers in Bonham's office. Bonham stated that Milner was most unwilling to testify in any way