U.S. LABOUR LEADER
CITIZENSHIP SOUGHT NEW YORK, May 20. The correspondent of the New York Times in Han Francisco says that Harry Bridges, formerly of Australia, who is in control of the San Francisco maritime workers, and has been described a.s the "stormy petrel of the Pacific Coast labour world," was instructed by the Federal naturalisation service to-day to file his first citizenship papers.
Bridges made his application on May 2, declaring that he had entered the United States in 1920, and had paid his head tax. A note placed on Bridges' application by the immigration service states that "deportation proceedings arc pending," apparently against the applicant.
In reply to questions, the Immigration Commissioner, Mr. Cahill, declared that no actual deportation proceedings had been brought against Bridges. The only complaint "which had been Jiled against him, as frequently happened in other cases, was that he had not observed the laws, and should be deported. It was indicated that so far nothing had been found to warrant a hearing in Bridges' case. I
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19038, 11 June 1936, Page 16
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