FRONT PAGE NEWS.
Communism Charges Against Harry Bridges. CONSPIRACY ALLEGED. (Received 9.30 a.m.) SAX FRANCISCO, July 11. Front page publicity is given by newspapers throughout the United States to the hearing of the charges relating to Communism against the Labour leader, Harry Bridges. Leading counsel for the defence, Miss Carol King, alleged that the case was a conspiracy against Bridges, who "was a symbol of Labour strength." She added that testimony would be falsely manufactured outside the Department of Labour by those trying to break the Labour movement. A witness, Milner, said members of the Communist party had been instructed not to recognise Bridges in publjc, and Bridges had been instructed to deny membership if questioned. Witness added that he had been with Bridges at Seattle when the battleships were anchored there, and Bridges had said: "We will see the day when we can sink those damn things. They are enemies of the workers." Milner declared that Communists were active in the formation of the Committee of Industrial Organisation, and said the party's principal objective was control of the unions.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 162, 12 July 1939, Page 9
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