It will be difficult for the twenty-first century reader to understand the utter hatred that San Francisco's business community held for labor leader Harry Bridges. The closest we might come today to sensing that intense dislike is to study the relationship between the White House and Congress during the late 1990s.
Bridges is as insidious as a cancer.
He reaches his goal thorough the use of soft, dulcet tones and velvet touches. He has, like the cancer, impregnated industrial bodies before opposition could be properly formed. Approximately three years ago, Henry Schmidt, Harry's chief lieutenant, acknowledged that both he and the Auckland Adder were Communists. The men must be handled properly. He is too valuable to his people and he is too smart for any of these fellows around here.