MAYOR ANNOYED
"AUSTRALIAN ALIEN"
EFFECT OF WORK IN U.S.A.
NEW YORK, January 19. The Mayor of Portland, Oregon, Mr, J X Carson, testifying before th» Senate Commerce Committee expressed annoyance with Mr. Harry : Bridges, the Labour leader, whom he described as an "Australian alien. Mr Bridges appeared in Portland several times and criticised the city* government. . Mr Carson declared that since Mr. Bridges was not an American citizen he had no right to do so. Labour disorders in the shipping industry had cost Portland 1,000,000,000 dollar? during the past three years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 17, 21 January 1938, Page 9
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