For 17 years the U.S. Government has been attempting to deport Harry Renton Bridges, a native of Australia, whose rise to labor leadershiphe has bossed West Coast longshoremen since 1934was achieved with Communist help. The basic complaint: that Bridges himself is a troublemaking Communist.
Backed by his International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Bridges beat the Government in 1939, 1945 and 1953. Last month in San Francisco, the Government gave Bridges another whirl. It sought his deportation on the grounds that he had lied in denying he was a Communist, or had been...
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