Complex sentence: Wicks was ﬁrst accused of being a spy in 1923, charged with having denounced CLP founding member Victor Saulit to immigration authorities while both were members of the Socialist Party of Oregon; the WPA inquest commission cleared Wicks of this charge, however.
Split into simpler sentences: Wicks was ﬁrst accused of being a spy in 1923, charged with having denounced Communist Labor Party founding member Victor Saulit to immigration authorities while both were members of the Socialist Party of Oregon. A WPA inquest commission cleared Wicks of this charge, however.