CHARGES AGAINST BRIDGES
♦_— COMMUNIST SYMPATHIES ALLEGED SAN FRANCISCO, July 19. During the hearing of the case against the Australian-born Labour leader, Harry Bridges, who is charged that he is deportable on the ground that he believes in or is a member of an organisation which advocates the overthrow of the Government by violence, Aaron Sapiro, a well-known attorney, testified that in 1936 “Bridges told me that he was running the Communist Party, and that the Communist Party was running the maritime unions on the Pacific coast.” These unions could “destroy a man in 24 hours.”
Sapiro further testified that Browder,’ the leader of the, Communist Party in America, told him in 1936: “I "know Bridges., He is'tme of the hardest members we have to handle in the party.” " 1 * ‘ The defence attempted to impugn Sapiro’s credibility' by showing that he had been debarred from practice in the Federal Court.
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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22768, 21 July 1939, Page 9
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