LABOR: Third Try

The U.S. Government, which had failed twice to kick Australian-born Harry Bridges out of the country as a Communist, was at it again. Last week in San Francisco, a federal grand jury indicted the Longshoremen's Boss Bridges for perjury. Said Bridges, with the air of a man who was weary of it all: "It's no surprise." But the Government thought this time it might prove to be.

The indictment charged that when Bridges became a U.S. citizen in 1945, he lied by swearing that he was not a Communist and never had been. The grand jury, after listening to a...

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