The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-06-04
CASE HISTORIES
OF GOVERNMENT
WITNESSES

SAN FRANCISCO.-With the gov
eminent case completed here are brie
case histories of the witnesses who
testified against Harry Bridges.
Together with those that testified
against Bridges in the first hearing
held in 1889 before Dean Lands, they
read with a who's who" of labor
spies, expelled union members, Dies
committee witnesses and convicted
criminals sprinkled here and there
with a few union soreheads They
are:
BENJAMIN GITLOW-Ex-Co mmun
list, Dies committee witness, who new
er even mentioned Bridges name dur
ing his two days on the stand in
which he told about what he said
were the inside workings of the Com
munist party He said Creation OF
the CLIO was the elimination of Com
munist policy"
EZRA F. CHASE = Ex-C Communist
admitted being labor spy, admitted
making written regular reports to Los
Angeles police labor detail when he
was paid official of an AFL furni-
application for job with a detective
agency for job as labor spy, as ex-
posed in LaFollette committee hear
ings. He said communist meeting
he had been to with Bridges was when
Bridges debated Roger Lapham, Amer
loo n a xIyoii 10 in No
dent, before 10000 people in San Fran
cisco civic auditorium!
FARRELL SCHNERING Another
ex-Communist who didn't even men
ton Bridges name, but said CLIO was
communistic.
HOWARD RUSHMORE = Also ex-
Communist, said when he was on
Communist Daily Worker, Bridges
was treated as a sacred cow" Others
so treated at various times, he said,
included President Roosevelt, Mrs.
Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, John L..
Lewis, the CLIO generally, and so on.
SAM DINER-Expelled from his I'M
ion, the International Ladies Garment
Workers, on charges of stealing union
funds. Placed Bridges at Commun-
list meeting but couldn't remember out
of dozens of personal friends he met
there anybody else except high Com
munist official!
THOMAS LAWRENCE = Said he
peeked through a window and saw
Bridges at a Communist meeting. Said
hn nf p,.id
icies Of aid to Spain and China de-
several years ago. Ex-Com-
munist.
FRANK RYAN = Removed from
stand when he denied Lawrence's
story. Communist
MAURICE ]. CANNALONGA-Who
said, well, yes and no." when asked
if FBI threatened him to testify. When
he first took stand. denied he ever
saw Bridges at a so-called Commun-
list meeting.
AMOS F KELLEY - Seattle hotel
keeper who tried to get Bridges to
form CLIO union of his employees,
when already under contract to the
AFL they demanded pay raise.
DAWN LOVELACE-Adm con-
nections with Portland police depart
ment, called well-known conservative
member of Portland local and state
lyman communist"
NAT HONIG-Who was taken into
custody few weeks ago by Seattle
police for shop-lifting. Ex-communist
lewspaperman, he said he had been
at meeting with Bridges but he
couldn't remember where.
ROBERT WILMOT-Who was fired
from Clio labor paper in Portland,
Oregon, incompetence and chronic
Now works for group
condemned by CLIO Long
shore conventions as anti-labor. Ex-
Communist
RICHARD ST. CLAIR-Who was so
confused on the stand that even the
udge asked him if he had ever been
confined to mental institution.
JOHN OLIVER THOMPSON - Out
IN three years parole for confessed
Killing of his wife by stabbing her in
he back
WILLIAM McQUISTON-Dies COM
nittee witness, expelled from CLIO Ma
ional Maritime Union for COON tao
les, tried for murder in New Orleans
II NMU Agent Philip Carey. said he