Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government proposed to prove that Bridges perjured himself at his naturalization proceedings in 1945 when he swore that he had never been a Communist. Schomaker had served as business agent of Bridges' International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, but lost the job in a union election in 1938 and eventually quit the union...
...morning in October 1933, Schomaker, Bridges and a Communist named Bruce B. Jones sat in a restaurant sipping coffee (paid for by Bridges) and talking. "In the course of the conversation," said the witness, "Jones put the $64 question to Bridges. The question was: 'When are you going to join the party, Harry?' Bridges already had the application." Bridges acted "kind of coy" for a few minutes, Schomaker went on, but finally he signed up under the name of Harry Dorgan, using his mother's maiden name...
...testified that he personally took up Bridges' party membership cards on two occasions and issued him new ones; he often saw Bridges pay party dues. He told of meetings between Bridges and party officials, and testified that the Communists were in complete control of the bloody 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, with Bridges taking orders from Sam Darcy, California Communist boss at the time...
...sentence on him early in the trial for contempt, rushed at John Schomaker like a cocky mahout. Pretending to read from a transcript of Schomaker's testimony in a 1939 court hearing, he asked the witness: "Do you remember being asked 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Answer...
...week's end, Schomaker's devastating testimony was unshaken and the Government had produced another ex-Communist to substantiate it. For the first time in its ten-year effort to deport Harry Bridges to his native Australia, the U.S. seemed to be getting somewhere...