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get rid of the Immigration Service for some time because of the fact that it overshadowed the Labor Department activities which I wanted to emphasize and bring up.

However, it was clear that in the Bridges case we must proceed with great care and be sure that we had all the facts right. Now I'm a little mixed up again as to the order of events. The two men in Oregon went over the testimony, questioned the immigration officers, questioned all the sources of gossip which had come in, because there had been some gossipers who had come in who when questioned couldn't give any evidence, couldn't pin it down, didn't know for sure, had just heard rumors. They interviewed the people who'd come in with gossip. I don't remember whether they interviewed Milner or not, but they locked up Milner and they found this vary doubtful background of his, and they found out about his having perjured himself in some earlier case.

This was the only substantial evidence that there was, and they came back and so reported, but also reported that with this evidence we had the proper thing was to go ahead and issue a warrant for Bridges' arrest, but give him in the same document, which is the usual procedure, the information of his right to appeal, and particularly his notice of hearing in which he would be examined with





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