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After 17 years and two trips to the Supreme Court, the U.S. Government has given up trying to deport Harry Bridges, 54, the Australian who rose to boss West Coast longshoremen with the help of the Communists and his own brassbound nerve. Having lost to Bridges in 1939, 1945, and 1953, the Government tried again last summer by seeking to prove Bridges lied during his naturalization in 1945, when he denied he had ever been a Communist. That failed when a federal judge found the charge unsubstantiated, leaving the way open for another endless round of new trials. But last...
...International Longshoremen's Association shut down the port of New York this month with a strike that the leaders labeled "spontaneous." The strikers knew better. At one strike meeting a member got up and asked: "What are the principles for which we are going out?" Without a word, an I.L.A. goon stalked over and slugged him in the face. As he toppled over, I.L.A. Chief Organizer Teddy Gleason boomed: "Now I'll answer the question. The principles are these: you go home, and you don't work. We don't want you guys asking questions...
...Congress) in 1953 to get rid of I.L.A. goons and racketeers. The commission had barred from the docks 670 hoodlums with criminal records, abolished the daily "shape-up" (at which I.L.A.-blessed bosses doled out jobs) and opened its own hiring halls for the port's 31,900 longshoremen. The I.L.A., which beat out an A.F.L. rival to win a union-shop contract last year, set out this summer to stop the commission's slow cleanup...
...years the U.S. Government has been attempting to deport Harry Renton Bridges, a native of Australia, whose rise to labor leadership-he has bossed West Coast longshoremen since 1934-was achieved with Communist help. The basic complaint: that Bridges himself is a troublemaking Communist...
Backed by his International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, Bridges beat the Government in 1939, 1945 and 1953. Last month in San Francisco, the Government gave Bridges another whirl. It sought his deportation on the grounds that he had lied in denying he was a Communist, or had been a Communist, during his naturalization...