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J ee ee ee ee po ? nO ‘, Big er 1 Se vache neem oe [effort by thea Federal Government «UGH GounT GRANTS REVIEW'T0 BRIDGES Agrees to Hear Arguments on _ Whether to Deport Him as a Communist By LEWIS WOOD | Boecial te Tan New Tore Trace. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29—Harry West Coast leader o: longshoremen’s unions, today won a Supreme Court review of the te deport him to hia native Aus-|' tralia on the grounds that he 13 a|- Communist. Through a formal “order, the}. high court agreed to hear argu- Taents in the Bridges case but simultaneously refused the plea of | the Communist Political Associa-| tion ta enter the controversy, The ipoliticial association, successor to the dissolved Communist Party of America, had demanded a chance prove that the original party) drganization did not advocate overthrow of the Government by forceand violence, as the Depart- ment of Justice alleged in the Bridges case, Ags usual, no amplification was made of the Supreme Court order, but Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson, a former Attorney Gen- eral, did not participate. The Government charges againat Mr. Bridges allege that he has been a member of the Communist Party of: America since his entry into this country, and was also affi- liated with the Marine Industrial Workers of America, a segment qt the party. The deportation proceeding upon ‘|which the Supreme Court will rule, was instituted In February, 1941.} _jBome time previously, a former _\pfoceeding was cancelled when the ‘lImmigration authorities falled - to prove that Mr. Bridges, an Austra- ‘Man alten, in the phr ecology of the: “immigration lew, is “a member of; | _ the Communist Party. Meanwhile, in the case of Sopp ‘G. Strecker, of Hot Springs, A. .the Supreme Court decided that an; jalien could not be deported aolely because he once held membership in the Communist Party. Follow- Ing that ruling, Congress charged the Immigration Law to make the membership qualification read, | “has been," at the time of entranre, or thereaicer, Accordingly, the new proceeding was begun againat Mr. Bridges, under another war- rant, and has now been sustained by two lower. courts. : Four years have elapsed - ‘since this action was started, but seven years In all have gone by ‘since the original papers were -filed.| Supported by the CIO and other]: labor elements, Mr. Bridges has|; poses Sore a the case "through the courts, t r J Fike My, Tete -s oo... “ae, BE. * PA ot “or, Treacy... | Wr. Even ‘in. Pans ' _ Mr. Quca Yen a dad - - reer \ | ey FER \ wer This is a clipping from page of the New York Times for te Bm Ree ae Covernment.