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Show I). S. DISMISSES BRIDGES CASE s, WASHINGTON, Jan. UPi The deportation case against Harry Bridges, west coast CIO leader, has been dismissed by Secretary of Labor Perkins, who held that his connection with the Communist party was not established. By her action last night Miss Perkins approved the findings submitted sub-mitted by Dean James M. Landls of the Harvard law school, special trial examiner In the case. A deportation warrant Issued In 1938 charged that Bridges was affiliated af-filiated with an organization which advocated overthrow of the government gov-ernment by force and violence. Landls found that Bridges was "energetically radical" In his beliefs, be-liefs, but said evidence did not show "that the methods he seeks to employ em-ploy to realise them are other than those that the framework of democratic and constitutional government gov-ernment permits." Miss Perkins commented In her decision: Ther was conflict of testimony testi-mony between several of the government gov-ernment witnesses and the witnesses wit-nesses offered by the defense. "The trial examiner . . . had opportunity op-portunity personally to observe the witnesses, conducted some of the questioning himself and therefore was In position to appraise both their veracity and the relative value and weight of their statements." state-ments." Bridges, a native of Australia, came to the United States In 1920. |