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'''Harry Renton Bridges''' was an Australian citizen, a San Francisco labor leader and clandestine Soviet operative. Bridges entered the United States in 1920 and underwent two failed deportation attempts between by the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations for his affiliation with the [[Communist Party]].
'''Harry Renton Bridges''' was an Australian citizen, a San Francisco labor leader and clandestine Soviet operative.
Bridges was born in 1901 in Melbourne, Australia and settled in [[San Francisco]] in 1920 where he became an organizer of the longshoremen. In 1921 he joined the [[anarchist]] Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). Between 1938 and 1956 the [[United States Government]] tried to [[deport]] Bridges. In four differnet federal hearings Bridges denied his [[CPUSA]] membership under oath.
==ILWU==
==ILWU==
"Harry’s boys got out their baseball bats to persuade the Scabs that it wasn’t worth the trouble," boasted one dockworker union [[propagandist]]. Some replacement workers died in unusual "accidents," including two college students. Many others were severely beaten, injured, and crippled. A deputy sheriff in Seattle who tried to arrest violent union thugs was [[murder]]ed, shot through the head. "Up and down the coast," wrote Bridges biographer Charles Larrowe, "the waterfront was turned into a battlefield."<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=5188 ''Port Fear''], By Lowell Ponte, FrontPageMagazine.com, March 16, 2006.</ref>
"Harry’s boys got out their baseball bats to persuade the Scabs that it wasn’t worth the trouble," boasted one dockworker union [[propagandist]]. Some replacement workers died in unusual "accidents," including two college students. Many others were severely beaten, injured, and crippled. A deputy sheriff in Seattle who tried to arrest violent union thugs was [[murder]]ed, shot through the head. "Up and down the coast," wrote Bridges biographer Charles Larrowe, "the waterfront was turned into a battlefield."<ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=5188 ''Port Fear''], By Lowell Ponte, FrontPageMagazine.com, March 16, 2006.</ref>
==Elected to CPUSA Central Committee==
In 1936 the California Communists put forward Bridges as a canddidate for the CPUSA Central Committee, and the national CPUSA convention ratified Bridges election. [[Comintern]] Archives in [[Moscow]] corroborate the events, noting in a brief biography (original in Russian) Bridges as "President of the Dockers' and Warehouse Workers' Union. He is a strong leader of the union movement and mass worker but up till now has only limited party knowledge and experience."<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=44cLamYUpWYC&pg=PA296&lpg=PA296&dq=harry+bridges%2Bcomintern&source=bl&ots=n2_jTqNU4E&sig=PgTPYpC-jDbgV6wx7XuZHdXcufE&hl=en&ei=wT1uSua-FJCi8gSZ7Y2NDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1 ''The Cold War: Cold War espionage and spying''] By Lori Lyn Bogle.</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=MBHSY0bCFWoC&pg=PA104&dq=Harry+Bridges%2Bklehr&lr= ''The Secret World of American Communism''], By Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, Fridrikh Igorevich Firsov.</ref>
==Dies Committee==
In its annual report of January 3, 1939. the [[Dies Committee]] urged that deportation proceedings be "vigorously and promptly" prosecuted against Harry Bridges. It declared
In its annual report of January 3, 1939. the [[Dies Committee]] urged that deportation proceedings be "vigorously and promptly" prosecuted against Harry Bridges. It declared