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Harry Bridges, Labor Day, 1939.
In Harry Bridges, an Australian-born waterfront worker, the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union possessed one of the most courageous and innovative leaders the American labor movement has produced. Bridges first came into
leadership during the historic 1934 general strike, and he and the ILWU rank-and-file went on to help build the new industrial unionism as part of the CIO . During his years of outstanding leadership, the government and the waterfront employers made three unsuccessful attempts to have him deported as "subversive."
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