ALLEGED PLOT
"GET BRIDGES"
SAN FRANCISCO, December 2.
the prominent Labour leader Mr. Harry Bridges is demanding a Federal investigation into an alleged plot to assassinate him, based on an affidavit alleging that one of the leaders of the American Federation of Labour gave Robert Bell 1000 dollars, instructing him to "get Bridges."
A message on November 23 stated: The Federal Government is quietly investigating an alleged campaign aimed at causing the deportation of two officials of the Committee for Industrial Organisation on the ground that they are aliens and members of the Communist Party. They are the Australian, Mr. Harry Bridges, and Mr. Harold Pritchett, president of the new International Woodworkers' Union. It is understood that Mr. Bridges emphatically denied at a recent private hearing held by the Labour Department that he was a Communist.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 135, 4 December 1937, Page 9
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136ALLEGED PLOT Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 135, 4 December 1937, Page 9
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