HARRY BRIDGES
DENIES BEING COMMUNIST ONCE JOKINGLY SAID HE WAS. EVIDENCE AT DEPORTATION HEARING. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, ‘August 2. Harry Bridges, called by the Government, testified at the hearing that he once jokingly said he was a member of the Communist Party, but actually he never was a member and had belonged only to trade unions. Bridges insisted, however, that it was his opinion that the Communist Party’s activities were open and not subversive. He believed in a Democratic form of government but opposed “The capitalist form of society, which to me means the exploitation of a lot of people for profit." He added that at the time of the maritime convention at Los Angeles in 1935 “it had become such a standing joke that everyone gave the Communist salute when they entered the convention hall and addressed the chairman as ‘commissar chairman.’ ”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1939, Page 8
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150HARRY BRIDGES Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1939, Page 8
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