Landis to Conduct Bridges' Deportation Trial Hearing

James M. Landis, Dean of the Law School and former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been designated as trial examiner in the coming hearings on deportation charges against Harry Bridges, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced yesterday.

The hearing for Bridges, the C. I. O.'s maritime leader on the West Coast, had been held up pending disposition of a like case by the Supreme Court. The Court decided that past membership in the Communist Party did not subject the defendant, Joseph Strecker, to deportation.

The Bridges case is almost exactly similar, the charge for deportation being based on the fact that he is a member of a party advocating the overthrow of the government of the United States by force and violence.