The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-16
Editors Demand
Bridges Custer
Judge Sears Findings Held
To Justify Deportation
Of CIO Leader

The recommendation of Judge
Charles B. Sears, Special Justice De-
partment Examiner, that Australian
born Harry Bridges, West Coast ClO
leader, be deported for affiliation with
the Communist Party has brought
favorable comments from the editors
of many daily newspapers. Some OF
these editorial expressions follow:
New York Herald Tribune: Justice
Scars bluntly charges Bridges with
Communist affiliation if not with
actual membership in the party. And
he goes on to say that "the Com
munist Party of the United States,
from the time Of it's inception in 1919
to the present time, is an organiza-
tion that believes in, advises, advo-
Gates and teaches the overthrow by
force and violence of the government
of the United States." This is forth
right language, and welcome, for the
prospect it offers of final ruling on
the point of Communist subversion.
|. Washington Post: The only reason
able course for the Department of
Justice is to act on Judge Sears rec
concentrations. If Mr.. Bridges ulti-
mately appeals to the courts, the case
should bring much needed clarifica-
ton Of the law governing the rights
of aliens who are associated with sub
versive organizations. Incidentally,
Congress should take note Of this
fortnight finding that "the Com
naunist Party Of the U. S. A., from
the time of it's 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" If this is true,
Communism in this country is not
just another political cause, but con-
spiracy against a Nation. Obviously
no such conspiracy should be allowed
to flourish because of any mistaken
belief that to uproot it would be H.
| liberal.
Philadelphia Record: Bridges is an
alien who jumped ship in an Ameri-
can port. His continued presence
here is not a matter of right, but Of
sufferance. That he should, as an un-
invited guest within this country,
take leading role in cooperation
with party dominated by foreign
government should, in itself, be
grounds enough for sending him back
to his native Australia.
The Communist Party is certainly
a dangerous, subversive, anti-demo-
cratic organization whose members
deserve no special privileges from the
United States.
Evening Star, Washington, ID. c.:
In a calm, measured appraisal of the
activities of Harry Renton Bridges,
the alien seaman, Judge Charles b.
Sears, presiding inspector for the JUS
tice Department in deportation pro-
ccedings, has found that the Aus
traian- born official Of the Congress
of Industrial Organization is subject
to expulsion from this country for
membership in the Communist Party.
BY documented evidence and from
the testimony of known principals in
the movement, Judge Sears developed
that the Communist Party is "an or
| ganization that believes in, advises,
advocates and teaches the overthrow
by force and violence of the Govern
ment of the United States," and is
therefore prescribed by the Alien
Registration Act of 1910.
The record set out by Judge Sears
will serve only to strengthen the gen.
eral opinion that the Government in
Bridges and his kind.
New York Times: The recommen-
dation made by former Judge Charles
b. Sears that Harry Bridges be de-
ported is in accordance with Ameri-
can conceptions of due process of law.
Mr.. Sears is retired member of the
New York Court Of Appeals. He pre-
sided as special immigration service
inspector at ten-week hearing in
San Francisco, and he has found that
Mr.. Bridges is deportabe under the
present immigration laws. Mr.. Sears
| iisin 'N'ihCV, uI)oI Vic IIldJ
Mr.. Bridges has been member of
the Communist Party, and affiliated
with the Marine Workers Industrial
Union, both subversive organizations
in the statutory sense.
Because of the conspiratorial nature
Of the organization, membership in
the Communist Party is difficult to
prove directly. But Mr.. Bridges has
hardly troubled to conceal even in his
public utterances the remarkable SIM
ilarity of the Communist Party line
to his own. He vehemently opposed
aid to Britain, denounced the war as
imperialist, but the moment Hitler in
vaded Russia Mr.. Bridges, though
still doubtful about "Tory- ruled" Eng
land, came out for immediate aid to
Russia, "the greatest anti-Fascist
power in Europe"
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