HARRY BRIDGES
NOT TO BE DEPORTED FROM U.S.A. REPORT AND MINISTERIAL RULING. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright WASHINGTON. December 30. The Secretary for Labour, Miss Frances Perkins, today announced that the evidence in the cases against the Australian-born secretary of the San Francisco Longshoreman's Union, Harry Bridges, does not warrant his deportation. Bridges was found innocent of Communist Party membership or Communist affiliation, which were the charges on which the Federal Immigration Service sought to deport him to Australia. At the special trial the examiner, Judge Landis, reported to the Secretary of Labour that Bridge’s aims are "energetically radical, but proof fails to establish the methods he seeks to employ to realise them, other than those that the framework of democratic constitutional government permits.” The report had the effect of recommending cancellation of the deportation order issued against Bridges on May 2. 1938.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1940, Page 7
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