BRIDGES CASE
EVIDENCE OF COMMUNIST
MEMBERSHIP
(Received July 24, 10 a.m.)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22
A witness named Dietrich, who was chewing gum while he testified at the hearing of the deportation charges against the Australian Harry Bridges, declared: "I once telephoned Bridges's home, but he was out of town. His wife was peeved and said she did not care if she did not see him again. She said she would show him up, and added, 'I have got his Communist Party book and I am going to show it to the world.'"
Dietrich said: "Bridges had his wife sent to the country and had women shake down the place to recover the book."
The witness added that fellowworkers frequently asked Bridges if he was a Communist, to which he replied: "If getting better conditions for the workers makes me a Communist, then I am a Communist."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1939, Page 9
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147BRIDGES CASE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1939, Page 9
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