BRIDGES HEARING
ALLEGED COMMUNIST MEMBERSHIP. ATTORNEY'S TESTIMONY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO. July 19. At the hearing of the action for the deportation of Harry Bridges, Mr Aaron Sapiro. a well known attorney, testified: "In 193 G Bridges told me that he was running the Communist Party and that the Communist Party was running the maritime unions on the Pacific Coast. These unions could ’des troy a man in twenty four hours.’ " Sapiro further testified that Browder leader of the Communist Parly in America, told him in 1936: "I know Bridges. He is one of the hardest mem bers we have to handle in the party." The defence attempted to impugn Sapirc’s credibility by showing that he had been disbarred from practice in the Federal Court.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1939, Page 8
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