Word: communistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witness Bridges demonstrated that whether he is a Communist or not is important primarily because it will determine whether U. S. citizens who own property and hire labor can be rid of Harry Bridges, trade unionist. The quality which made him tick as precisely and dangerously as a bomb-clock did not come from Marx. It was simple, deep and active discontent-with things as he found them during his boyhood Down Under in Australia, with the U. S. as he found it when he sailed through the Golden Gate on a freighter...
...painted himself Red with his disquisitions against corporate employers as a class, his belief that the U. S. should be so far socialized as to liquidate big companies and substitute public ownership of their properties. Since there are 100,000 accredited and much more ambitious Reds in the Communist Party, U. S. A., this credo was no great distinction. What distinguished Witness Bridges was that he put his union ahead of their Party. He confessed that he had used and would continue to use Communist money, brains and brawn when they could help win something for the discontented stevedores, lumberjacks...
...declared that the Communist Party is not subversive, that he and his union membership believe in its current trade-union policies (but not necessarily in its longer-range social and political policies...
...Sometimes I get a little irritated when my views are ascribed to the Communist Party because I had them before the Communist Party came into being...
...Communist teachings . . . are mostly theory, and I generally stay with the practical matters...