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Coggins; Yes. He had been the best peace orator we had# 



Xt was even worse in the S«eond World War, 

 You see 4 the backbone of the w^ iNialatanea in tha 

 first war had been the needle trade unions, 

 Milwaukee Labor and peqpla of that kind, who were 

 European and were anti^^ar. When the second war 

 came along, many of their relatives were being 

 slaughtered, some former pacifists thought va 

 should go over and fi^t. It was a touchy situation. 

 You couldn't Terj wall explain to a person that it 

 would be better if his relatives were killed, xsaybe, 

 that it was a question whether the people there 

 gat killed or whether otir boys get killed* And X 

 don*t feel that's a decision that anyone really 

 has the right to make* 



Gilbt You mentioned this Jewish natter. Were the Socialists, 

 the pacifists, in Berkeley at that time Jewish? 



Coggins s Hot so many, no* 



Oilbi Mostly Protestant? 



Oogginai I would say that if there was any predominant 



religious group, it was the Methodists* They had 

 always taken, I think, what was an enlisted stand 

 on labor matters. Some of those people had 

 expected to be ministers* 



