LABOR LEADER BRIDGES WILL LECTURE HERE

Harry Bridges, head of the International Longshoreman's Union and leader of the West Coast CIO Union movement, whose deportation as an alien Communist is still pending, will speak to an Armistice Day Audience in Emerson D on "Labor and the War" next Wednesday.

The meeting, which comes at 8 o'clock and is open to the public, is under the join auspices of the Liberal Union and the Harvard Teachers Union. Bridges will be in Boston to attend the annual CIO convention.

Spoke Here in 1940

Two and a half years ago Bridges spoke here, sponsored by the old Student Union. At that time, in February, 1940, a special committee headed by Dean James M. Landis of the Law School had just cleared him of Communist charges. Since then the deportation question has dragged on and Bridges keeps organizing with the FBI at his heels.

At the 1940 meeting, Bridges told a stormy and sometimes unsympathetic audience that unions were "the main liberal force in America today," and that business and newspaper interests were combining to squash them.