Is Bridges A Communist?
(Received 3 p.m.)
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27.
At the continued hearing of the Communist charges against the Labour leader, Harry Bridges, John Davis, former business agent for the Sailors’ Union on the Pacific Co'ast, testified that he had sat with Bridges at several meetings limited to Communist Party members. Davis also affirmed that Communists in the army and navy bases on the Pacific Co'ast were under instructions “to take over in the event of war or revolution.”
James Engstrom, a former president of the Marine Federation of the Pacific, testified that white girls were employed to lure negroes into the Communist Party. Mr Landis declared the testimony irrelevant, and ordered it to be struck off the records.
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Northern Advocate, 29 July 1939, Page 7
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