WATERFRONT LEADER
MELBOURNE. April 4. ‘'My son is not a Communist, ro mater what is said about him in the United States.” said Mr. Alfred E. Bridges, father of the Australianborn Harry Bridges,. American waterfront leader. “If he is deported ti Australia nobody will have the right to cal! him that.” Mr. Bridges, sen., is an estate agent in Kensington, Melbourne. "If I-larry comes here he will probably go into politics.” he said, “but in Australia it will be a different story. Over there he took up the cause of the downtrodden waterfront workers who wore being given a very poor deal. Tilings are different here.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20525, 8 April 1941, Page 2
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