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set to work devising a scheme to prevent further labor 

 upheaval* How he achieved this end was the subject of 

 an inquiry by the LaFollette Committee in 1939* as well 

 as of this interview. 



The interview was taped on December 5$ 1962 in 

 Sheriff Miller's home in Martinez, a comfortable stucco 

 house not far from his travel bureau office on Main Street. 

 The living room was decorated with mementos and trophies 

 of his hunting and shooting skills and of the sheriff's 

 mounted posse which he directs and which performs at 

 distant and nearby civic celebrations. A film projector, 

 screen, and rolls of film were standing ready for his 

 next invitation to lecture on a travel subject. 



Miller, a tall, heavy-set man with his greying hair 

 in a youthful crew cut, pulled no punches in answering 

 questions on the setting up and operation of the Brentwood 



* 

 Testimony by Sheriff Miller and exhibits illustrating his 



role in the Brentwood Plan appear in the LaFollette 



Committee hearings and report as follows: U.S. Senate, 76th 



Congress, 2nd Session, Hearings before a Subcommittee of 



the Committee on Education and Labor pursuant to Senate 



Resolution 266, 74th Congress. Violations of Free Speech 



and Rights of Labor . Part 49, pp. 17999-18195, Part 73, 



pp. 26905-26968. Same, 78th Congress, 2nd Session, Report . 



Part VIII, pp. 1298-1329. [WB] 



