The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-19
JUDGE
DEFERS ISSUE
OF WARRANTS
Four |. w. w. Members
Face Deportation

Issuance of the deportation
warrant against four members
of the Industrial Workers of the
World, who have had deporta-
ton hanging over them for four
years, was postponed by Fed
eral Court Judge Adam CIiffe in
the Post Office Building yester-
day, after the plea of the attor-
ney for the Industrial Workers
of the World, that time was
needed to prepare for deporta-
ton.
The four defendants, William
Moran, Pietro Nigra, Joseph
Oates, and Herbert Mailer, are
all prominent members of the
|. w. w. who served terms in
Leavenworth after Judge K. M.
Lands sentenced them during
the war hysteria.
The case was taken to the United
States Supreme Court by the defense,
on the grounds that the warrant is
sued by the immigration bureau of
the U. s. Department Of Labor failed
to show cause why the men should be
deported.
Warrant Defective.
The United States Supreme Court
has ruled against the Industrial
Workers of the World, according to
John o. Ryan, one of the defense
lawyers, admitting that the warrant
was technically faulty but declaring
the immigration authorities had a
right to amend the warrant of de-
portation. A new warrant was issued
declaring the /. w. w. organizers must
be deported as Undesirable aliens"
who were not working in accord with
American principles.
Thomas Doyle, of the Doyle-Fisher
group of the /. w. W., against whom
an Injunction has been issued by the
Observation-Disclosures faction, told
the DAILY WORKER reporter that
the injunction brought into the CAPT
talist courts has seriously hampered
the defense of the four I. w. w. mem
bers. "They have shown not the
slightest disposition to cooperate" he
declared. ut might have been a very
serious matter. Because of the injunc-
tion proceedings we could not get hold
Of the receipts for the bonds of the
four defendants. Under this contin-
tinuance, the four wobbly organizers
might have had to go to Jail for sixty
days, because we could not get the
bond receipts in order to make the
bond transfer"
Time Necessary.
The defense lawyer, in pleading for
the continuance, declared that the 1.
w. w. defendants needed at least
sixty days in order to get their af-
fairs in order. He emphasized the
case of Pietro Negra, who has been
a resident of the United States for FL
years. "All of the defendants have
resided in the United States eight
years or more" Guinea said.
William F. Bigelow, one of the
lawyers for the Rowan-Bowerman
Griffith faction of the l. w. W., re-
fused TO make statement other than
to deny that his clients are intending
to drop the injunction case, which
has been landed in the court of the
worst labor-hating judge in the city,
Superior Court Judge Dennis F. Sui
livan.
81 have not heard of any move to
drop the Injunction against Doyle and
Fisher" Bigelow told the DAILY
WORKER. "And it would be mighty
funny If there was move for truce
and had not heard of it." He char
acterized as "untrutuhful' statements
that his clients intend to drop the
injunction charges.
Four Active Workers.
The four l. w. w. organizers, SEN
fenced by Judge Lands, were also
sentenced to deportation at the ex-
piration of their terms in Leaven-
worth which they have served
Doyle told the DAILY WORKER
that the four defendants are among
the most active organizers in the /.
w. w. movement, and he looks upon
the move to deport them as a drive
of the employers to disrupt the or
ganization.