MR HARRY BRIDGES
ATTACK BY RIVAL LABOUR LEADER. ALLEGED BIG SALARY AND EXPENSES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, July 7. Declaring that propaganda had built a false halo round Mr Harry Bridges, Mr "Tiny” Thronson, leader of the rival American Federation of Labour Union, told a longshoremen’s conference that Mr Bridge’s salary was 16,000 dollars annually, plus an unlimited expenses account. Mr Thronson alleged that it was not true that Mr Bridges was an Australian labour leader before coming to the United States in 1920. He was a ribbon salesman in an Australian department store. Because of his strike-breaking activities in New Orleans in 1921, the shipowners gave him a job in San Francisco together' with membership of the companies' union, after which, Mr Thronson claimed, he bargained his position to feather his nest.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1939, Page 7
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135MR HARRY BRIDGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1939, Page 7
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