NERVOUS STRAIN
BRIDGES IN WITNESS-BOX
(Received August 4, 12.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, August 3. The Australian Labour leader Harry Bridges, while givi">.~ evidence at the hearing of deportation charges against him, was apparently under considerable nervous strain.
Bridges testified that about 20 years ago he had been a member of the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of the World) for a short time until he found out what it stood for. He, repeated again and again that he never was a Communist and that he abhorred any revolutionary movement that would destroy democracy.
Bridges said he believed that the Communists had "their weight behind me. . . . They make good militant trade union men."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 10
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