Evening star., 1941-09-29
BY J. A. FOX.

Deportation of Harry r Bridges,
West Coast c. l. o. leader. on the
grounds that he was affiliated with
the Communist party, was recon-
mended today to the Justice De-
partment by Judge Charles B Sears.
Judge Sears sat as a special eX-
aminer in a hearing concluded in
San Francisco in June after the 1m-
migration and Naturalization Serv-
ice had issued deportation warrant
for Bridges, native of Australia
who came to this country in 1920.
Judge Sears found that the COM
munist party of the L. S. A. from
the time of its inception in 1919 TO
the present time, is an organization
that believes in, advises, advocates
and teaches the overthrow by force
and violence of the Government of
the United States" and that Bridges
is subject to deportation under the
Alien Registration Act Of June %.
1910, for having been a member OF
this organization.
During the 11-week hearing in
San Francisco. Bridges denied that
he was or had been member OF the
Communist party.
Bridges May Appeal.
Judge Sears report was filed in
San Francisco today with l. F.
Wixon, district director Of the I'm
migration Service and at the same
time was made public here by the
Justice Department.
1t. in turn, will go to Lemuel B.
Schofeld, special assistant to the
Attorney General in charge Of the
immigration and Naturalization
/ Service. Bridges will have an ap-
peal to the Board of immigration
and Naturalization Appeals.
The deportation warrant was is-
sued against Bridges on the basis Of
a lengthy inquiry by the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, after the
new Alien Registration Act made
past membership IN an organization
advocating the overthrow Of the
Government by force cause for de-
portation.
The deportation to Australia OF
the head of the G. l. o. lOngsnore-
mans union was sought two years
ago. but at that time Dean James
NJ. Lands. who sat in as an investi-
gator in the case. said there was no
showing he was a Communist al
though he was "energetically rad
ical."
In rendering his decision. Judge
Sears overruled a defense motion
to reopen the case on the grounds
that telephone wires leading to
Bridges hotel rooms in New York
had been tapped by agents Of the
F. B. l. for two weeks in August,
after the hearing had been con-
cluded.
His Union Called Communist.
/ In addition to holding that the
/ Communist party advocates over
/ throw of this Government by force.
Judge Sears found that it writes,
circulates, distributes, prints, pub
fishes and displays printed matter
| advocating the overthrow of the
Government by force, and that the
Marine Workers Industrial Union,
with which Bridges also was said to
be affiliated, is dominated and con-
| trolled by the Communist party.
There has never been determina-
ton by the Supreme Court whether
the Communist party actually advo-
Gates the overthrow of the American
Government.
To support the contention that
the Communist party advocated the
| overthrow of the Government by
force. Judge Sears gave this de-
scription of its objectives: The ul-
innate objective of Communism and
of the Communist party of the
United States is that society shall
be transformed from one based upon
the concept of capitalism to one
purely socialist. The Communist
party believes and teaches this
transformation can be accomplished
only by the overthrow of all capital
ist governments, the United States
Government being in that category,
and the substitution being therefore
of a dictatorship of the proletariat
patterned after the government OF
Soviet Russia. To the accomplish
ment of this end all the more inn
mediate aims and objectives of the
/ Communist movement are directed"
Judge Sears discounted testimony
! by James D. O'Neil, former editor
:, (See BRIDGES. Page A-3J