Cika wannan jumla:
1934 Yajin aikin bakin teku na Yammacin Yamma, Bridges ya kasance shugaban kungiyar Longshoremen ta Duniya (ILA). A shekara ta 1937, zai zama shugaban kungiyar CIO mai zaman kanta, International Longshore da Warehouse Union (ILWU). Kawai tsarin Bridges na matsawa kusa da CIO da kuma kafa ILWU ya isa ya sa Bridges a kan murfin 19 Yuli 1937 na mujallar "TIME". A cikin labarinta na murfin, "CIO to Sea", "TIME" ya lura cewa, tare da gazawar Little Steel Strike, John L. Lewis, shugaban duka United Mine Workers da Congress of Industrial Organizations sun juya zuwa ƙungiyoyin ruwa don taimakawa wajen gina sabon CIO. Shugabannin farko na CIO sun hada da: Philip Murray na Kwamitin Kungiyar Ma'aikatan Karfe (SWOC); Sidney Hillman na Ma'aikatan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Kayan Lewis ya riga ya tattara shugabannin kungiyoyin kwadago da yawa: Joseph Curran na 'yan bindigar East Coast (National Maritime Union; Kyaftin E. T. Pinchin na Masters, Mates & Pilots na Amurka; Vincent Malone na Marine Firemen, Oilers, Watertenders & Wipers Association; da Shugaba Mervyn Rathborne na American Radio Telegraphists. A cewar "TIME", Lewish ya so Bridges, sannan har yanzu shugaban gundumar Pacific Coast na ILA, ya jagoranci reshen CIO na teku. "TIME" ta kwatanta Bridges a matsayin "mutum mai ban tsoro na Pacific". Koyaya, "TIME" ya kuma lura "Wannan ita ce gaskiyar cewa duk da cewa Harry Bridges ba ɗan juyin juya hali ba ne, miliyoyin mutane suna tunanin shi ne" kuma ya ambaci wannan gaskiyar a matsayin wata matsala ga Lewis da kuma sha'awarsa don jawo hankalin ƙungiyoyin kwaminisanci. Daga cikin magabtan Bridges (saboda haka matsalolin Lewis), "TIME" ya lura da mai bugawa William Randolph Hearst a matsayin shugaba. A watan Yulin 1939, Bridges yana aiki a matsayin "Daraktan Yammacin Yamma" na CIO.