Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-25
Elsie
Robinson
How Long Will Bridges
Play u. S. for Sucker?
BY ELSIE ROBINSON

Dy EAJAS sNODAANpOAN
rTHIS fellow Bridges. Whose
Il trial has finished in San
francisco for what are claimed
10 be his various subversive
activities. I'm going to make
a few remarks anent him, il
it's the last thing i do. For
if ever conniving trickster
was making a sucker out of
these United States. this long
nosed guy is doing il. And /
wonder how long we intend
TO let il continue?
Mind you. I'm ewilling 10
give any person Ms due. 1
do not blame Mr.. Bridges for
being an alien. If l so loved
my country that 1 could not
sever my allegiance to il land
| doD I would be an alien.
| would never, if il cost my
head, belong 10 any nation but
America.
But. even so. / would face
my situation sincerely and act
accordingly, without guile or
hypocrisy. If / remained an
alien in a foreign land, l
would be consistent alien.
would not batten on the
industrial force of that foreign
land / would not line my
own purse by agitating its
workers while Withholding my
allegiance TO its institutions.
RY HIS own admittance.
~ and record. this fellow
Bridges has done all this. and
more. Why he has remained
an alien is little mysterious 4
since he loved" his native
Australia so deeply that he>
skipped over the side of one
Of her ships in the dark OF
the moon and departed other
ward as fast as his smart
shins would take him.
Since Uhen he has started
10 take ont naturalization
papers three times and
passed them all up. II this be
patriotism, gre me larceny.
After which. Mr.. Bridges
career centered around that
most profitable of all rackets,
Raising Hell. In short. he
organized his branch OF labor
by tellisg all and sundry
they'd been Done Dirt. and
proceeded 10 heave the results
in Uncle Sans teeth.
All of which is neither
unique nor sensational. Cop
ing with the muck OF other
national cutters is one ot
The penalties of Democracy
Sut what I'd like TO know
IS this HOW LONG
ARE WE GOING TO BE
THE WORLD S SUCKER
NATION?
Mr.. Bridges himself adj
nitted that, during the dis
strous San Francisco water
ront strike of 1884. he
conferred with and took
orders from Communistic
eaderSy He has revealed
hat he was, time and again,
involved in Communistic &C
ivltles.
OWEN while standing trial,
IA Mr.. Bridges has been con-
luctlng his special activities.
lie has wired encouragement
and endorsement 10 strikers
N the Northwest. Grantedx
that they have right T.
strike even at a time likc'
this. are we going to let alien
ship-deserters egg EN- on?
Here's a man who couldn't
nc iUydt cvcr-to-t mrs own
land. Yet we let him push
ours around
HAVEN'T WE ENOUGH
100 PER CENT AMERICANS
IN THIS COUNTRY TO
LEAD OUR LABOR, AND
MOLD OUR IDEALS, WITH
OUT LETTING "A MAN
WITHOUT A COUNTRY"
GRAB THE JOB?
. Whose fault is II? It's
ours. We've always been
like this. Big-hearted saps.
Letting any tin-horn gambler
take us for a ride. And
we're reaping the results
right now. And may reap
even worse results in the
future unless we snap out of
IL and render one verdict 10
Mr. Bridges, and all the
profiteering parasites who are
infeSting our country today.
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