Speaker. I do this to direct attention of the Members to this news item about the threat charge in the Bridges case. There is a subheading which says "Reds would try to tie up the deportation ship. Legionnaire declares." Then the article goes on to state that Communist Party leaders have threatened to stop the deportation of Harry Bridges. the west coast director of the C. I. 0.. in the event the bill to deport him is passed by the Congress. This statement was made today by Homer L. Chaillaux. director of the National American Commission of the American Legion. before the Rotary Club: The latest threat from the Communist Party is that "we have machinery to make it impossible for Bridges to be deported by boat." They mean that they control the seamens union on the west coast and will make it impossible to move any boat on which an attempt is made to ship Bridges. This appears to be an intolerable situation in which the Communists of the country are defying Congress over this man Bridges. These Communists are receiving their greatest help and aid from a man who has sworn to uphold the law and do his duty. namely.
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