The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-06-05
DEPORTATION OF
RADICAL, FIRST
WORK OF STONE
Exiled Russian Leaves
Family Destitute
10y The Federated Prsss)

DETROIT, June 4.-Nicclai Manse-
vich Detroit Russian. for 10 years an
employee of the Ford Motor Company,
has at last been deported to Grodno,
Poland, formerly in Russia. Now after
three years one of the most bitter,
vicious and cynical cases Of federal
espionage and framed up repression
on record is at an end, as far as the
government is concerned.
But 1t is not really at an end.
When he went unwillingly away
with a borrowed $40 to surrender to
Ellis island, Mansevich left behind
him in Detroit three little American
born girls, Anna, Mary and Jenny, and
a wife who is to give birth to another
child next fall.
Leaves Family Destitute.
The family is destitute. More than
a year ago he surrendered at Ellis
island for deportation and an equity
in another house had to be sold at
that time Until he returned, on an
appeal in his behalf to the supreme
court, Mrs. Mansevich and three chill
dren were at the slender, not tender,
mercies Of the department of welfare.
The physical condition of the moth
or would not permit her to work to
support herself and the children even
If she could leave them during the
day to take a job. There is nothing
in sight for them but to become pub
lie charges.
D. of J. Frame-up.
Mansevich was arrested in 1921. Two
agents of the bureau of investigation
of the department of justice followed
a bundle of anarchist papers from the
American Railway Express to his
home. The department of justice, ar
irving just as the bundle arrived, saw
Mrs. Mansevich accept it and then
dragged Mansevich from his machine
Mt the Ford Motor Company to Jail.
A statement in which he was made to
appear as advocating killing public
officials" was prepared for him to
sign before he had counsel He was
recommended for deportation by the
local immigration before his friends
knew ne was IN CUSTODY.
immigration Chief Hostile.
Petitions were sent to Washington
bearing the names of school teachers,
bishops, judges, liberals and Fedora
ton of Labor executives. The case
resolved itself into struggle on the
part of spies and immigration inspec-
tors to maintain wartime power. II
Joseph Apelman, one of the arresting
officers, a former Socialist party or
ganizer and wartime stool pigeon, or
P. L. Prentis, now chief of the Detroit
immigration district, had been apo
plectic, each would have died of rage
and alarm. The faces of both turned
purple on numerous occasions of pro-
test
Stone Refused to Act.
Workers who expect Harlan F.
Stone, the new attorney. general, to
aid them can learn something from
the Mansevich case. Stone took Of
flee only a few weeks before Manse-
vich's sentence was finally carried
out. But there was still time after he
was settled in Harry M. Daugherty's
swivel chair for Detroit men and wo-
men to see that he reviewed the case
thoroly Women representing the De-
troit committee of the American Civil
Liberties union called at Stones Of
flee with newspaper clippings, petit
tions and personal pleas. They also
obtained an interview with President
Coolidge
Stones answer was that however
regrettable the situation, it was not
within the province of the attorney
general to interfere.
Mrs. Mansevich is a good mother
and a good housekeeper, who soon
will have no house to keep.