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Harry Bridges has stormy session at House. Washington, D.C., May 10. Congressmen members of the House Merchant Marine Committee spent most of the morning's hearing heckling CIO International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union President Harry Bridges. He opened his statement with the statement that most of his members were citizens, and was promptly told by Chairman Bland to 'stick to the question.' So, Bridges said that the primary question involved was whether or not the men to be employed on the merchant ships of the government were government employees. He said they were not. He said he had taken out first papers as an American citizen, but it still a British subject

Harry Bridges has stormy session at House. Washington, D.C., May 10. C...

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Vitliano Scambis is an Italian from New York. He has only taken out his first papers, but he is a real American and proud of it, despite the fact that his shoulder has been pretty well shot to pieces, his arm damaged and one of his eyes shot away, he greets everybody with a bright smile and says: "I gotta it very bad from those Huns. But if I had lost my life I would have been glad to give it for my country." Describing his brief stay in France to a Red Cross visitor, he said "I feel vera bad that I gotta it so soon, because I wanta to be out there a fighting. When I saw the poor French people and their cities all smashed, it broke my heart!" On another occasion he said, "American is my country. I want to go back to Italy and see my fodder and mudder for a few days after the war. Then I wantta go home to America!"

Vitliano Scambis is an Italian from New York. He has only taken out hi...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Wounded, Hospital, England. On caption card: B-398. Data: Atlantic Div. 11/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General infor... More