The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-13
U. S. DELIVERS
italian REBEL
TO MUSSOLIM
.Nigra to be DepOrted to
Land of Terror
By LAURENCE TODD.

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Federated Press stan correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, Oct. H.
Pietro Nigra, Italian subject,
one of the victims of the I.W.W.
hysteria trial at Chicago during
the war, will be deported to Italy
for such tender reception as the
fascist sIuggers may give him,
in November. They murdered
Matteotti, the Italian socialist
leader.
He will be deported altho as
sistant secretary of labor
White has been fully informed
as to the likelihood that he is
sending Nigra to death or
manning
The Reason Why.
The chief reason why the gentle
spoken White is going to do this is
that It is easier to agree with fan
atical reactionary who acts as his le-
gal adviser than to follow his own hui
name impulses. The law permits the
secretary Of labor, in whose stead
White is acting in these deportation
cases, to determine whether an alien
is such an undesirable person as to
justify the punishment Of deporta-
ton.
When the Federated Press CORE
spondent went to see White, to learn
why he proposed to return Nigra to
Italy Nov. is, he found that White
was unfamiliar with the case, which
he had finally decided last April. He
thought chief justice Taft had render
ed decision in the l. w. w. cases
which made deportation necessary.
The decision, rendered last January,
in the cases of Nigra, Mailer, Oates
and Moran, the four ex-prisoners now
awaiting deportation, upheld the right
of the government to send these men
back to the countries from which they
came.
oh, Mol
White first suggested that I'VE are
not passing on the radicalism of any
alien" Then he thought that he might
permit an alien to depart at his own
expense to a country other than his
own, if that country would receive
him. So, if Nigra could get assur-
ances that he would be permitted to
enter England, that solution might be
arranged.
Presently the legal adviser came in.
He was asked whether Nigra could
legally be permitted to depart to Eng
land.
81 wouldn't let him." explained the
adviser sharply This fellow is an
undesirable citizen, he was one Of
that Haywood gang, and they were
convicted of destruction Of property,
sabotaging the war and all sorts Of
crimes. He's an anarchist and the law
requires that you deport him.
When reminded that Nigra was
never convicted of being an anarchist,
and that the issue was simply his le-
gal right, the adviser again displayed
wartime hysteria against all labor
radicals. White joined the chorus
and it was suggested to him that Sen.
Pepper, at the invitation of president
Harding. investigated the evidence in
these cases and pronounced 1t wholly
insufficient for conviction.
Not Even As Good az Teddy.
The record produced by White
showed that he had already, at the
advice of his departmental lawyer,
decided that Nigra and the three 9TH
er I. w. w. trial victims were unde-
sirable aliens who must be deport-
ed to their countries of origin. He
withdrew his promise that Nigra
might go to country where his life
would be safe.
President Roosevelt refused to let
Elihu Root send Rudowitz back to
Russia to be hanged by the czar," he
was reminded.