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DESCRIPTION:Angel Island and Trial of Harry Bridges\nWith Harvey Schwartz \n\nHarry 
 Bridges, the Australian-born founding president of the International 
 Longshore and Warehouse Union, was hounded by government investigations, 
 hearings, and trials from 1934 to 1955. As the leader of the famous 1934 
 Pacific Coast Maritime and San Francisco General Strikes, Bridges was the 
 target of powerful conservative forces in and out of government. In 1939, 
 U.S. federal authorities conducted a hearing on Angel Island to determine 
 whether there were legal grounds to deport the foreign-born labor leader as 
 an alien Communist. The Angel Island hearing attracted major media 
 attention and remains an important historical event in Bay Area labor and 
 immigration history. The 1939 Bridges inquiry was a prelude to the later 
 witch-hunts of the 1950s McCarthy era, with its persecution of immigrants, 
 radicals, labor activists, and dissenters of every stripe. Harvey Schwartz, 
 curator of the ILWU Oral History Collection, will explore the circumstances 
 surrounding the Bridges hearing and describe the trials that followed it, 
 which reached the U.S. Supreme Court twice. In an era of difficult times 
 for organized labor, renewed intolerance, and anti-immigrant national 
 politics, knowledge of the Bridges Angel Island hearing remains as relevant 
 today as it was in 1939.\n\nLaborfest began in 1993 to commemorate the 1934 
 general strike that made San Francisco a union town, and together with the 
 1934 General Strikes in Minneapolis and Toledo, made possible in 1935, the 
 passage of the Social Security and Unemployment Insurance Act, and the 
 legalizing of the right to organize labor unions with the Wagner Act. See 
 \nhttps://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v66n1/v66n1p1.html 
 \nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act (Wagner 
 Act\n\nSee 
 also:\nhttps://www.lawcha.org/author/harveyschwartz/\nhttp://theharrybridgesproject.org/biography.html\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Hallinan 
 (lawyer for Harry 
 Bridges)\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy\nhttp://www.laborfest.net/wp/event/angel-island-and-trial-of-harry-bridges/\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/22/18815878.php
SUMMARY:Laborfest: Angel Island & Trial of Harry Bridges
LOCATION:FERRY INFORMATION TO ANGEL ISLAND\n Depart – SF Ferry Building: 9:15, SF 
 Pier 41: 9:45 Return from Angel Island – 2:20, 4:20 Fares: One way Adult 
 $9.75, Senior $5.50 You need round trip ticket. For more information 
 including ferry from Tiburon departing at 10 AM: 
 https://www.oursausalito.com/angel-island/angel- 
 island-ferry-schedule.html\nMeet at the benches in front of the entrance 
 stairs to the U.S. Immigration Station. You can reach the Immigration 
 Station by hiking a 1.5 mile trail uphill or by paying $ 7 to ride the 
 Island’s shuttle. Please check our website (http://www.laborfest.net) or 
 call LaborFest (415-642-8066) for any changes. 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/22/18815878.php
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