LABOUR IN U.S.A.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1938, Page 6

LABOUR IN U.S.A.

CHARGES MADE AGAINST MR H. BRIDGES INVESTIGATOR’S REPORT. OFFICIALS SAID TO'BE INVOLVED. (Recd This Day, 2.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 14. “Sixty per cent of the labour unrest and violence on the Pacific Coast is due to Mr Bridges,” charged Mr Edward Sullivan, the House inquiry’s ace investigator, in a report 'filed tonight. Mr Sullivan alleged that subversive activities were encouraged by high Federal officials. Bridges received advice from ex-Labour Department officials, Mr Sullivan stated, while patriotic citizens were endeavouring to have the Australian deported. “Witnesses,” he said, “can name the day when an Immigration officer read to Mr Bridges a confidential letter of instructions: on his future behaviour, written by. an . outstanding Labour Departmental official. It. . is also possible to obtain witnesses who know of cases of attempted murder and kidnapping carried out by those surrounding. Bridges. Many men who opposed Bridges’s policies are among the missing. They were called out from hotels at-midnight and were not seen again. .

Mr - Sullivan added ~that unbridled; Communistic activities were financed from within the movie industry. “The. movie moguls,” he said, “desire to keep the matter from the public. All phases of . radical activities ■ rampant -among the studios.:’ A'- number ofi stars are opposed, but one told,me if he spoke out the studios, would soon ‘ditch’ him,”. . ‘ . Mr Sullivan urged an investigation of the Hollywood anti-Nazi League.