Harry Bridges Quotes
I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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First use of the term robot to indicate an artificial human.
This was the title of a science fiction play he wote in 1920. In it he coined the term "robot"
Harry Bridges was an Australian-born American union leader, first with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA). In 1937, he led several chapters in forming a new union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), expanding members to workers in warehouses, and led it for the next 40 years. He was prosecuted for his labor organizing and believed subversive status by the U.S. government during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, with the goal of deportation. This was never achieved.