Folder: Portraits-Bridges, Harry. 1938.
Newscopy: Asks for Hearing Before Senate Committee. Washington, D.C...Harry Bridges, West Coast Director of the Committee for Industrial Organization and President of the International Longshoremen's Union, left, confers with Lee Pressman, General Counsel for the C.I.O. at C.I.O. headquarters, here. Bridges asked the Senate Joint Committee on Commerce and Labor for a hearing on what he termed the "wild and loose lipped" charges made against him by Joseph P. Ryan, A.F. of L. Officer. The request was made in the form of a letter from Pressman. G-2-26-38-12/05.