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that somebody came in that you recognized, I think from 

 Martinez, as an agitator, and he was picked up right 

 away by one of your men and sent on his way. 

 That's right. I think his name was Roberts, if I'm 

 not mistaken. We became fast friends later on. He was 

 a painter and what you would call an organizer. I also 

 picked him up during the Crockett trouble and took some 

 weapons away from him and many, many others in the 

 Crockett trouble, all by myself. This is another story, 

 of course, but a very interesting one, but this had no 

 connection with the Brentwood case. 



So you had experience in this labor situation in other 

 aspects? 



Oh, yes, we had a very tough problem over there in 

 Crockett because that was the birth of the CIO organiza- 

 tion and of course the CIO was making inroads into the 

 AFofL and of course there was resentment there. That 

 has all been breached, the sore has healed over, but 

 those were the early days where somebody would come 

 into your gravy train and pick off the apples and take 

 some away from you. It was quite a serious breach 

 there, a statewide breach. It was a situation whereby 



