Government's Perjury
Against Harry Bridge:
Conspiracy Case
j Due To End Soon
'Editor's Note: The trial of CIO
Longshore Leader Harry Bridget on
rhargts of conspiracy is approaching
lis end. The following aispatcn. writ
ten bv the reporter who has covered
the lenethv trial from IU beginning
last November, fives the background
on ine case.j
By Robert Blackmon
United Press Correspondent
San Francisco, Mar. 9 IU.PJ
Harry Bridges, CIO longshore
leader, testifies again today to
deny government charges that
he lied in denying he was a com
munist when he became a citi
zen nearly five years ago.
Defense attorneys were ex
Dected to conclude their sur-re-
buttal with the Australian-born
Bridges' final testimony. That
will open the way for final ar
guments before presenting the
case to the jury 01 etgnt men ana
four women.
That day may not come for
another week. Defense Attorney
Vincent Hallinan wants four
days for his summation and
James Maclnnes wants a day or
a day and a half. Prosecutor F.
Joseph Donohue says he will
take a day tor nis iinai argu'
ments.
Exoensiv Trial
To date, the 67-day trial has
cost the government an estimat
ed $5U0,uuu and the detense
from $100,000 to $110,000.
Bridges said 35 to 40 per cent
of the defense money comes
from non-union sources.
On trial with Bridges are two
union aides, J. R. Robertson and
Henry Schmidt, who acted as
witnesses in Bridges naturaliza
tion hearing in 1945. The gov
ernment says they knew Bridges
was a communist, although they
swore then he was not.
If found guilty, the three men
face jail sentences totaling seven
Presbyterians In
Phoenix Plan To
Dedicate Manse
Phoenix. Mar. 9 Dedication
of the new manse of the Phoe
nix Presbyterian church will be
held Sunday, March 12, during
the 11 a.m. service, according to
an announcement by the minis
ter, the Rev. E. J. Clark.
Sunday afternoon, between 3
and 5 p.m., and in the evening
between 7 and 9 p.m., the min
ister and his wife will hold open
house in the new home and all
members and friends of the
church and anyone in the com
munity interested are invited to
attend. The Rev. Mr. Clark and
Mrs. Clark ask that there be no
gifts.
Ground was broken for the
new manse last October. Labor
for the building was largely do
nated, and materials were fur
nished at a discount, resulting in
a substantial, saving to the
church, it was reported. The min
ister and his wife said they wish
to thank all those in the church
and everyone, both in Phoenix
and Medford, who contributed
"so generously" to the building.
Many who have seen the new
manse have commented favor
ably on its construction and
appearance.
Checker-Chess Club
To Celebrate 1st Year
The Medford Checker and
Chess club will celebrate its first
anniversary this Sunday, with a
checker tournament at the Car
penters' hall, 123V4 West Main
street.
Winner of the tournament
will be considered the champion
of Medford. Prizes will be giv
en to winners, and play will be
gin at 10:30 a.m. All checker
and chess players in and around
Medford are invited, according
to Cliff Heeter, secretary.
FARM PLANTS AVAILABLE
The habitat improvement de
partment of the state game com
mission announced today that
175.000 trees and shrubs are now
available for planting on farms
and ranches in eastern Oregon,
ONLY BIGGEST FOR HIM
New York, Maf. 9 U.R) The
New York philharmonic-symphony
reported today that a thief
had entered its instrument room
and marched off with the biggest
thing he could find the bass
..drum.
years and fines totaling $15,000
In addition, the government
has filed a civil suit seeking to
revoke Bridges' citizenship and
deport him to his native Aus
tralia. The success of that suit
depends on the outcome of this
trial.
Bridges, now 50, came to this
country in 1920 and first be
came prominent during the
bloody San Francisco longshore
strike in 1934. He has been
president of the powerful CIO
Inter national Longshoremen's
and Warehousemen's union for a
number of years.
Two Attempts Fail
The government has tried to
deport him twice before, both
times unsuccessfully. However,
this is the first criminal case
against him.
This trial beean Nov. 14. 1949.
In the 67 trial days since then, t
the government called li wit
nesses in its case-in-chief and
three in its rebuttal.
In essenpe, the government
witnesses gave testimony to
show that Bridges attended 59
communist party meetings. One i
witness, Mervyn Rathborne, said
he attended at least 40 with ,
Bridges. ,
Government witnesses also;
placed Schmidt at 15 party meet
ings and testified that Robertson
was a member of the party.
Each of the defendants denied
being a member of the party
Bridges testified he accepted the
help of the communist party,
during the 1934 and 1936 long
shore strikes, as he did any per
son or group that was on the
side of the longshoremen.
The trial has been marked by
bitter clashes between the pro
secution, defense and the court.
Attorney Sentenced
Federal udge George B. Har
ris sentenced Defense Attorney
Hallinan to six months for con
tempt of court, while he has cited
Maclnnis for contempt, with
sentence to be passed at the end
of the trial.
Sex entered the 1,462,000
words of testimony when two
women, Mrs. Betty Teixeira and
Mrs. Jean Murray were accused
of trying to tamper with Rath
borne, the prosecution's chief re
buttal witness. They will be
tried soon.
They are accused of threaten
ing to tell Rathborne's wife he
was intimate with them, if Rath
borne persisted in his intention
to testify against Bridges. Both
women appeared yesterday to
deny the charges. They will
deny them again at their own
trial.
One government witness, Paul
Crouch, testified that Strip
Teaser Gypsy Rose Lee once
kissed Bridges in public.
The government opened its
case with testimony from John
Schomaker, an ex communist
who said another longshoreman,
Bruce Jones, talked Bridges in
to becoming a communist party
member in 1934. ' Schomaker
testified he saw Bridges pay
party dues and heard Bridges
solicit members for the party.
But Jones, testifying for the
defense, called Schomaker a "
liar."
Bridges On Stand
Bridges was on the stand for
10 days. During that time, the
defense and the prosecution ex
plored minutely his attitudes
and beliefs on trade unions, the
world situation and Russia. He
accused government witnesses
of "lying like hell" In calling
him a communist and said they
should be prosecuted for perjury
instead of him.
He also charged the FBI was
tapping his teletypes and tele
phones. "Sometimes, on conference
calls on the teletype, the opera
tor says, 'wait a minute, the FBI
isn't on yet,' " he said.
Bridges claims he earns $135
a week as president of the union.
He is married to the former
Nancy Fenton, who once was a
professional dancer. They live Thursday, March 9, 1950
in a modest home where they
are bringing up two children,
Robert Alfred, 22 months, and
Julie, six-year-old daughter by
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Mrs. Bridges' first marriage.
They were married shortly
after Bridges became a citizen.
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