ALLEGED COMMUNIST
TRIAL OF HARRY BRIDGES FURTHER EVIDENCE HEARD (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. (Received July 21, at 8 p.m.) . William Howard, a former member of the Marine Union, testified that Harry Bridges boasted of his Communist membership in 1936. He also alleged that Bridges packed the union meeting with Communist '•' stooges or sympathisers." A letter written to the Lewis Committee of the Industrial Organisation was read into the record .to-day. It alleged that Bridges not only was a Communist but placed Communists in key positions in the Pacific coast unions.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23867, 22 July 1939, Page 14
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