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anes ever ersaiah terial wien x - id . . ‘Post’ Calls length editorial yesterday came out . decisively for drop: the persecu- tion against Ha ridges. This ' preceded by o a few hours the ‘ news that the Supreme Court has greed to review the Bridges case. The Post appealed specifically to . & Attorney General Francis iddle to reverse himself and drop charges against the West Coast leader, “Public officials and industrialists , the West Coast are alarmed,” editorial sald. “Attorney Gen- 1 Robert W. Kenny, of Califor- . wrote Biddle and Presiderit ae a se al e. vom 4 | BOMAR 5 - 1949: 0 ee een Cee Ba ot ae Fe a ae eel ase o Drop Bridges Case The New York Post in a full) dismissal or’ by the Maritime Commission andj ishment retroactive. be woe ee qyelt on Jan. 18, appealing f weed. Jase tess hele n, va * a gigi An 8 io! are mM, re ern t : ae ‘ the Military Affairs Committee of the U, 8. Senate, ' “Attorney Biddle has reject#d ; the legal arguments in behalf Bridges,” the Post added. “But ' he cannot ignore pleas based on -; on Biddle agement for winning the war, On that ground alone he must re-— verse himself.” Biddle, the Post said, gave decision under a law which written especially te “get” Bridgi.: The editorial then pointed out that’ when the deportation warrant was; first issued in 1939, the law re-| quired that the Government prove, membership in the Communist: Party at the time of issuing a wa! California Legislature passed a res- dant in order to deport an aller! olution praising the contribution of) and that after the Government 1 rie] of the Bridges pro- ceedings. “Labor-management relations on the West Coast since Pearl Harbor have been remarkably good! Harry Bridges and his unions, according to California's Attorney General, have given ‘concrete demonstration on the waterfront as weil as in every industrial pliant of a pro- found understanding of the need to bury differences, “Last year the Assembly of the Bridges’ union to the war effort.|this case, Congresa amended This resolution cited similar praise| immigration laws to make the pun- 4 \ unity between labor and man- | : ae This is a ma ‘from page DAILY | | au : A. xt re Pere ee yy . ot ae jipevemnen te. ] | rib 2894 ee ein _ ned at the See of the “f° paren i’ ['