"Without Any Doubletalk"

Even his own union local was against Harry Bridges. It took all the wiles he had learned in years of twisting and turning with the Communist Party line to put off the longshoremen's demand for a formal endorsement of the U.S. military action in Korea. Bridges' parliamentary tactics stalled a vote on the resolution at the first meeting of Local 10; some of Harry's muscle boys broke up a second meeting with a well-timed fist fight.

Last week members of Local 10 piled 2,500 strong into San Francisco's Coliseum Bowl for a third and final try. Harry Bridges, currently appealing a perjury conviction which may cost him five years in prison, stood up to make a maudlin appeal: "The FBI are waiting to pick me up after this meeting,"* he shouted, "and before they do I want to make a statement of policy." But Harry's longshoremen would have none of him. They shouted and booed him, then roared overwhelming approval of a resolution which said: "We go on record without any doubletalk that we will support our Government and our President 100% in this great crisis and we will load any and all cargoes destined for the war area ..."

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