U.S.A. LABOUR UNIONS
ANTI-BRIDGES MOVEMENT.
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LOS ANGELES, August 8
Four unions affiliated to the Committee for Industrial Organisation, representing workers in the Clothing, motor-car, rubber, and shoe industries, voted in favour of withdrawing from Mr. Harry Bridges’s Committee for Industrial Organisation and Industrial Union Council, The workers charged the council with working hand in glove with the Communist Party to the detriment of Labour. The four unions represent more than 20,000 workers in the Los Angeles area. In denouncing Mr. Bridges and his policies the unions agreed to establish a. Committee for Industrial Organisation Council independent of Mr Bridges’s group and agreed unanimously to boycott Mr. Bridges’s State Labour Convention, which is to take place this month. The charges against Mr. Bridges included that of acting as a dictator, I subordinating Committee for Indus-] trial Organisation interests to Communism, maintaining control by fraud, and appointing Communists to executive positions regardless of ability.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 August 1938, Page 7
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