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8 unusual facts about Harry Bridges


Angelo Joseph Rossi

In an extended strike late in the late 1930s, Rossi lashed out at Harry Bridges, West Coast C.I.O. leader, saying the city is "sick of the alien" in a telegram to President Roosevelt, asking for federal intervention.

British Columbia Maritime Employers' Association

Nevertheless, workers managed to establish and sustain an independent union under Harry Bridges's new International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) that still exists today.

Deviationism

Browder developed the doctrine of indefinite collaboration with capitalism and the Harry Bridges doctrine of postwar extension of the no-strike pledge.

Lee Pressman

In his role as the CIO's general counsel, Pressman was influential in helping to stop the attempt to deport Communist Longshoreman's Union official Harry Bridges.

Sam Hobbs

Hobbs also passed a bill that would have deported labour leader Harry Bridges.

Smith Act

The Smith Act was written so that federal authorities could deport radical labor organizer Harry Bridges, an immigrant from Australia.

It drew some of its language from statutes recently passed at the state level and combined anti-alien and anti-sedition sections with language crafted specifically to help the government in its attempts to deport Harry Bridges.

Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders

-- the University of California required all faculty members to take an oath asserting that they were not communists; --> former government employee Alger Hiss was tried for perjury stemming from accusations that he was a communist (a trial also held at the Foley Square courthouse); labor leader Harry Bridges was accused of perjury when he denied being a communist; and the ACLU passed an anti-communist resolution.


Francis J. Murnane

More than 500 people attend Murnane's 1968 funeral, including ILWU International President Harry Bridges, who served as honorary pallbearer and delivered a graveside eulogy, Governor Tom McCall, U.S. Senator Wayne Morse Wayne Morse, Mayor Terry Schrunk, Dovie Odom Hatfield, mother of Mark Hatfield Commissioner William Bowes, Commissioner Frank Ivancie, and Commissioner Stanley Earl.

Herbert Sorrell

At age 12 he found employment in a sewer pipe factory in Oakland, California, and later in Oakland he worked with union leader Harry Bridges.

International Longshore and Warehouse Union

Harry Bridges was elected President of the new union, which quickly affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Nathan Eckstein

In 1937 and 1938, he was part of a citizen's committee that successfully arbitrated in a jurisdictional dispute between the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA) under Harry Bridges and the Teamsters under Dave Beck over organizing inland warehouse workers.


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