Dee ihe ndị ọzọ dị na paragraf a - N'afọ 1934, ndị na - arụ ọrụ n'akụkụ mmiri n'Ebe Ọdịda Anyanwụ Amerịka gbara arụkwaghịm.
, Bridges bụbu onye ndu nke International Longshoremen's Association (ILA). Ka ọ na-erule afọ 1937, ọ ga-abụ onye isi oche nke International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). Naanị usoro Bridges na-eme ka ọ bịarukwuo CIO nso ma guzobe ILWU zuru ezu iji mee ka Bridges daa na mkpuchi nke mbipụta July 19, 1937 nke magazin "TIME". Na akụkọ mkpuchi ya, "CIO to Sea", "TIME" kwuru na, na ọdịda nke Little Steel Strike, John L. Lewis, onye isi nke United Mine Workers na Congress of Industrial Organizations tụgharịrị na ndị ọrụ ụgbọ mmiri iji nyere aka wulite CIO ọhụrụ ahụ. Ndị isi ndị isi nke CIO gụnyere: Philip Murray nke Kọmitii Na-ahazi Ndị Ọrụ Steel (SWOC); Sidney Hillman nke ndị ọrụ uwe Amalgamated; Harvey Fremming nke Mmanụ Ala, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; na Charles P. Howard nke Typographical Union. Lewis akpọkọtala ọtụtụ ndị isi ndị ọrụ ụgbọ mmiri: Joseph Curran nke ndị ọrụ ụgbọ mmiri East Coast na-enupụ isi (National Maritime Union; Captain E. T. Pinchin nke Masters, Mates &amp; Pilots of America; Vincent Malone nke ndị ọrụ ụgbọ mmiri, ndị ọrụ mmanụ, ndị ọrụ mmiri &amp; Wipers Association; na Onye isi Mervyn Rathborne nke American Radio Telegraphists. Dabere na "TIME", Lewish chọrọ Bridges, mgbe ahụ ka bụ onye isi oche nke Pacific Coast District nke ILA, iji duzie ogwe aka nke CIO. "TIME" kọwara Bridges dị ka "nwoke a na-atụ ụjọ nke dị na Pacific". Otú ọ dị, "TIME" kwukwara "Nke ahụ bụ eziokwu na ọ bụ ezie na Harry Bridges abụghị onye mgbanwe, ọtụtụ nde mmadụ na-eche na ọ bụ" ma kpọọ eziokwu ahụ dị ka nsogbu nwere ike ịbịara Lewis na mmasị ya maka ịdọta ndị Kọmunist na-eduzi ndị otu. N'etiti ndị iro Bridges (ya mere nsogbu Lewis), "TIME" kwuru na onye nkwusa bụ́ William Randolph Hearst bụ onye bụ́ isi. Ka ọ na-erule July 1939, Bridges na-eje ozi dị ka "onye nduzi West Coast" nke CIO.