From the Publisher's Description:

"IN THE summer of 1939, Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor, announced to America that Harry Bridges would be placed on trial to face deportation charges on the grounds that he was a member of a revolutionary organization advocating violent overthrow of the United States Government. James MacCauley Landis, Dean of the Harvard Law School and former Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission, was appointed trial examiner.

The trial, conducted on Angels' Island in San Francisco Bay, lasted nine exciting weeks. Harry Bridges spent two and a half days on the witness stand. Finally, on New Year's Day, 1940, after spending six months in careful study of several volumes of testimony, Dean Landis handed down his momentous decision.

Estolv Ward, West Coast newspaper reporter, has captured the white heat of the hearings in HARRY BRIDGES ON TRIAL, dramatizing it vividly in living newspaper style.

HARRY BRIDGES ON TRIAL is not only a melodramatic story of the attempt to 'get' Harry Bridges, it is also an important document. The Landis Trial proved that Bridges was the victim of a conspiracy, organized by industrial 'giants' and executed with the help of felons and labor spies; a conspiracy that involved perjury, the sale of affidavits, and blackmail; a conspiracy that even reached into the Immigration and Naturalization Service; a conspiracy not only against Bridges, but against the C.I.O. and the American labor movement .

Why did the distinguished trial examiner completely vindicate Harry Bridges? Why did Bridges, whom the press has attempted to make Public Enemy No. 1 of the American System, arouse the admiration of Dean Landis? HARRY BRIDGES ON TRIAL tells the complete, absorbing story."