Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei:
Ko te 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, ko Bridges te kaiarahi o te International Longshoremen's Association (ILA). I te tau 1937, ka riro ia hei perehitini mo te wehenga, CIO-whakaputaina International Longshore me Warehouse Union (ILWU). Ko te tukanga anake o Bridges e whakatata atu ana ki te CIO me te hanga i te ILWU he nui ki te whenua Bridges i runga i te uhi o te 19 Hōngongoi 1937 putanga o te "TIME" maheni. I roto i tana korero taupoki, "CIO to Sea", "TIME" i kii, na te kore o te Little Steel Strike, John L. Lewis, te upoko o nga United Mine Workers me te Congress of Industrial Organizations i tahuri ki nga uniana moana hei awhina ki te hanga i te CIO hou tonu. Ko te kaiarahi tuatahi o te CIO ko: Philip Murray o te Komiti Whakahaere Kaimahi Steel (SWOC); Sidney Hillman o nga Kaimahi Kaimahi Kaakahu; Harvey Fremming o te Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; me Charles P. Howard o te Typographical Union. Kua huihui a Lewis i etahi kaiarahi uniana moana: Joseph Curran o nga kaipuke o te Tai Rāwhiti o te Tai Tokerau (National Maritime Union; Kapene E. T. Pinchin o nga Kaiwhakaako, Mate & Pilots o Amerika; Vincent Malone o te Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders & Wipers Association; me te Perehitini Mervyn Rathborne o nga American Radio Telegraphists. E ai ki te "TIME", i hiahia a Lewish ki a Bridges, i taua wā tonu ko ia te tumuaki o te Takiwa o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa o ILA, hei ārahi i te ringa moana o te CIO. I whakaahuatia e "TIME" a Bridges hei "te tangata whakawehi o te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa". Heoi, "TIME" ano hoki i tuhia "Ko te mea pono ahakoa kaore a Harry Bridges i te hurihuri, he miriona nga taangata e whakaaro ana ko ia" ana i kii ko taua meka he raru pea mo Lewis me tana hiahia ki te kukume i nga uniana i arahina e nga komunista. I roto i nga hoariri o Bridges (na reira ko nga raru o Lewis), i kii te "TIME" i te kaiwhakaputa a William Randolph Hearst hei rangatira. I te Hōngongoi 1939, i mahi a Bridges hei "Kaiwhakahaere Hau-ā-uru" o te CIO.