Reagan's family briefly lived in several towns and cities in Illinois, including Monmouth, Galesburg, and Chicago. In 1919, they returned to Tampico and lived above the H. C. Pitney Variety Store until finally settling in Dixon, Illinois. Regarding a 'jurisdictional strike' going on for seven months at that time, Reagan testified:      The first time that this word 'Communist' was ever injected into any of the meetings concerning the strike was at a meeting in Chicago with Mr. William Hutchinson, president of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, who were on strike at the time. He defeated former San Francisco mayor George Christopher in the Republican primary. In Reagan's campaign, he emphasized two main themes: 'to send the welfare bums back to work,' and, in reference to burgeoning anti-war and anti-establishment student protests at the University of California, Berkeley, 'to clean up the mess at Berkeley.'
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