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Article: Harry Bridges, RIP. (obituary)
- Article from:
- National Review
- Article date:
- April 30, 1990
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HOW that Harry Bridges is dead, the city of San Francisco rises to hail him as a legendary character. He was certainly that. For a few days in 1934, and for a few years after the war, there was no man in California as critical as Harry Bridges to the life of San Francisco. According as he willed, the city did or did not engage in commerce. His militant unionism brooked no opposition. And moral questions were disposed of by reading the Daily Worker and receiving his instructions there. In 1946 the CIO kicked out the International Longshoremen's Union-citing, without any benefit of advice from Joe McCarthy, the subservience of its leadership to the Communist cause. At one ...
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