[...] Mayor Rossi, for his part, congratulated the "real leaders" of the union forces on their decision. San Francisco, he said (in a statement probably drafted by John Francis Neylan), had stamped out "the very real danger of revolt." But, Rossi added, "The crushing of this strike cannot be allowed to be used "to destroy union labor or its rights." He pledged his efforts to "secure justice" and defend "his fellow citizens" against "unfair aggression." To the Committee of Five Hundred he pledged: "I will, to the full extent of my authority, run out of San Francisco every communistic agitator."