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The West Coast Waterfront Strike lasted 83 days with longshoremen returning to work on July 31. Arbitration was agreed to and it resulted in a victory for the strikers. and the unionization of all West Coast ports in the United States. For 19 years afterward, the federal government tried to deport Bridges, a native of Australia, but were unable to prove his Communist connections.<ref> Newly opened Soviet archives show that Bridges was indeed a Communist Party member who took orders from Moscow. Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes: "Communists and the CIO: From the Soviet Archives," ''Labor History'', vol 35, no. 3 (Summer 1994). </ref>
The West Coast Waterfront Strike lasted 83 days with longshoremen returning to work on July 31. Arbitration was agreed to and it resulted in a victory for the strikers. and the unionization of all West Coast ports in the United States. For 19 years afterward, the federal government tried to deport Bridges, a native of Australia, but were unable to prove his Communist connections.<ref> Newly opened Soviet archives show that Bridges was indeed a Communist Party member who took orders from Moscow. Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes: "Communists and the CIO: From the Soviet Archives," ''Labor History'', vol 35, no. 3 (Summer 1994). </ref>
==Further reading==
==Further reading==
* Cherny, Robert W. "Prelude to the Popular Front: The Communist Party in California, 1931-35." ''American Communist History'' 2002 1(1): 5-42
* Cherny, Robert W. "Prelude to the Popular Front: The Communist Party in California, 1931-35." ''American Communist History'' 2002 1(1): 5-42 online at [[EBSCO]]
* Larrowe, Charles P. "The Great Maritime Strike of '34". ''Labor History'' part 1: 1970 11(4): 403-451; part 2: 1971 12(1): 3-37
* Larrowe, Charles P. "The Great Maritime Strike of '34". ''Labor History'' part 1: 1970 11(4): 403-451; part 2: 1971 12(1): 3-37
* Larrowe, Charles P. ''Harry Bridges; the rise and fall of radical labor in the United States'' (1972)
* Larrowe, Charles P. ''Harry Bridges; the rise and fall of radical labor in the United States'' (1972)