SHOWDOWN SOUGHT
REPLY TO DEPORTATION MCVE DEMAND FOR SENATE HEARING United Pres? Association—B« Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received February 17, 6.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, February 16. Mr Harry Bridges, the Australianborn labour leader, is going to Washington in order to demand a personal appearance before the Senate. "Senator Copeland has said that there is no piece in the discussion for aliens, and I have been charged with being a Communist. I have repeatedly asked the committee to subpoena me, but it has refused. Now 1 am going east for a showdown,” he said.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20965, 18 February 1938, Page 9
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91SHOWDOWN SOUGHT Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 20965, 18 February 1938, Page 9
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