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sort of crackpots. They were not the serious and responsible people of the unions, although some of them were undoubtedly union members. They were not union demonstrators, however. They would often bring along with them five or six women who were housewife types that came along - very emotional. They would all start talking at once, were very good at that.

I began to realize that it was a claque. We just got along as best we could. We made no fuss about it, said very little. But I was aware of how they behaved, what they did.

I don't remember hearing about the Commies during the election of '32. They ran a ticket, but I don't recall it clearly. They must have had meetings, but they were not impressive enough so that a person interested in politics, as I was, and interested in the labor movement and everything that affected labor, particularly interested in the depression and how to overcome it, was impressed by them. If they had meetings, I wouldn't know who spoke at them. I don't recall them specifically. I do recall knowing that there were these people and that the ones I had had contact with were kind of crackpots.