LEADER OUSTED.
U.S. Waterfront Strike Chief Deposed. SAN FRANCISCO, June IS. Conservative elements in the International Longshoremen’s Union on the Pacific Coast are consolidating to break the influence of Harry Bridges, the longshoremen’s left-wing leader. Bridges is a former Alelbourne resident. in his thirties, who, having left Australia as a seaman a dozen years ago, became a waterfront leader in the United States, and organised a general waterside strike at San Francisco last year.
Joseph Ryan, the international presu dent, and William Lewis, district president of the union in San Francisco, have now succeeded in appointing Arthur Peterson, of San Pedro, Pacific Coast organiser, over Bridges’s head. Lewis had previously defeated Bridges for the district presidency.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20650, 26 June 1935, Page 1
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