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🗓️ 9 December 2022
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0:00.0 | So, John L. Lewis is a contradiction of a man. |
0:05.0 | He's, you know, militant in many ways, but also a Republican and a vehement racist. |
0:13.4 | And does not like Harry Bridges. |
0:18.0 | Bridges, after starting the ILA is basically... |
0:21.1 | That Tasmanian whore! |
0:24.5 | Or, sorry, after starting the ILWU, rather, |
0:28.5 | Bridges is basically in control of the entire West Coast, |
0:32.3 | all the docks, and... |
0:33.8 | And... |
0:34.6 | What's the coast? |
0:36.5 | Lewis is able to reduce that to just California. |
0:39.7 | So it just puts him in California. |
0:43.2 | It is a, as this will come up, |
0:46.2 | Harry Bridges has been called a communist. |
0:51.8 | And not inaccurately, but this is... |
0:58.7 | Derogatory. |
1:00.2 | Yeah. |
1:00.9 | This is a way to get him deported. |
1:05.8 | So the first attempt to deport him is 1939, |
1:08.9 | and they keep going and going them to Australia where he's from |
1:12.9 | okay uh and well there's a while where you're just sending communists on like the fucking |
1:20.0 | rudolph the reindeer ice raft to the soviet union yeah it's a legitimate question at any point in |
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