FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN U.S. DIRECTS THAT BRIDGES BE IMPRISONED
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5 (Recd. G p.m.)—The Australianborn union leader, Harry Bridges, was ordered to be imprisoned today. The Court acted on the Federal Government’s submission that Bridges should be imprisoned as “an enemy within our borders. ’ ’
Bridges, who is president of the Longshoremen’s Union, has been free on 25,000 dollars bail since last April, when he was convicted of perjury, for swearing, in his citizenship application in 1945, that he was not a Communist. The Government, in asking that Bridges' bail be revoked, charged that his activities since the outbreak of the Korean war had been “inimical to the security of the United States.”
Bridges’ lawyers gave rptice of appeal.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 7 August 1950, Page 5
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