INSIDE LABOR LEFTISTS DEFEND HOFFA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000300030024-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 24, 2000
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: September 22, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

battled J mrn e o a s s. Jv they .world disrnver that.
One of tha. siinst xV9.ive of those
.loyal legions are on the left, tai ng detenie hinds, dist.ribut-
flank of the land. It is intri wing; in; literaturF and =I?naking in
!.that some of the loudest last heh if of Hoffa is Harry Bridges.
hurrahs for the man who i still; boa j or the, Pacific Cnasi long-
".technically the Teamsters' hiefi sho emen's un:cn. Also artive is
'come from in who seek eal Bri ge., colleague Louis Cold
ANSWER REFUSE
i. And who is Bridges' colleague
f.ouis Goldblatt? Part of the an
saver . is in . a confrontation hf-
tween the crusading Sen. Mc-
Clellan and Mr. Goldblatt on
July 10. 1959. The aei~+rtor. asked
Goldblatt:
""Now I will ask you if you.
have in the 1 pat, any time in
the ii t since you have been e
member of a union, have you
been a member of the Commu..
fist Part
?"
y
_ _
This same Union as
c h a r g e d by the Subversive tender of Hoffa, took the fifth
Activities Control Board with and refused to answer.
being heavily Communist Infil-
trated. Later, Gnldhiatt was asked if.
This 'has been developing for he had written and published it,
years. Now the Senate group pamphlet which said in partta
.. .. ,_ ------- i "'We in the U.S. under the lead-i
in,gs with the Chinese Co mu-1 Ma t brilliant strategist and danger," shall overthrow capitalism
~.nist government and the' vieti sep etary-treasurer of Bridges' This is not a partisan report. and build a workers and farm=
t- Soviet Amer?
en
"
a pparat.
These are Illen who have been
called Communist activist, by
sworn witnesses in the urts
:and btefore congressional om
mittets. These are men whe
havt traveled with world em-
".munist labor leaders acro the
%0.16be and some of whom have
'so appreciated by the Ru, ians
:that they were made honorary
.members of the Soviet , rade
;union federation.
It is'witli these men, and their
..unions, that Jim Hoffa ha tied
his union in written pacts c iling
for joint action - industri and
IotV shoremen. .. ; It is signed by political leaders ers governm
of all persuasions in tlbe Senate. ioa."
BRIDGES HELP
ho is Harry Bridges, defend-!.
er of the `faith' for Jimmie;
HOMO He is, for example, the.
ma who helped to launch the
"A I Pacific and Asia Dockwork-
bra Trade Union Conference" 'in
the Orient. It has been meeting!
re larly in Tokyo. Amongst its,
its lution~.axe demands for the:
ab lition.. of ,III ; J.$,_ ?anilitary
ba in Japan,.and charges. that
th a are slave Jahpr conditions
in the vital U. S. base in
Ok nawa.
political. It its all. on the rcord., I is' Harry Bridges who is
Therefore, their defense o -him- 1e ink the drive for open reJa-
is understandable. Bt;t th lack do s 'with PekingIt, is Harry
of curiosity on the. part f the Br d
Teamsters who have been raven ges who has c ailed for the
di atch of AineriCan govern-
'Into these lliances is t te~_co compre'I~I,Ryed? vedloeq)OW13 idsFf
lve k its trade and its frie.nc
Approved For Release 200023Z:fDP70-00
Their,.opinions should not he. lost:' Again Aoldblatt took the fifth.
tional political life. What is the; _
,men and the leader of the no`s,
d~ngri '^ And to whom?
.ship. It is Harry Bridges who
was named an honorary mem-
ber of the Soviet Sea, Rivers;
and Dock Workers Union.
it is Harry Bridges who was,
met at the Rome -airport by'
leading members of the Commu-
nist World Federation of Trade
tion's big motor transport union q
it is germane to point out, tor,.
that t'-,e Worker, clarion of the;
Communists of America, speaks',
well of, Hoffa and champions his
Add to All rhis the [act, long
ago reported here and confirmed:
CIA .chief Allan Dulles as the a few days Ago by the Senate.
conduit of money and manpower Internal Security Subcommittee,;
in the global fight against: the that Hoffa dug into the Team=;
U S. sters treasury for $100,060 as a
loan to the Mine, Mill and Smel-:
'It is Harrv Bridges whn is in; ter Workers for defense of ecme'
~a~tit-}~ All fM of rplp~ f Qd~ o its leaders who have been
eI,WI bhY c nvicted on charges of filings
9
.
leone'committees for Jim Hoffa false. anti-Communist affidavits.