The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-18
five WORKERS
ARE THREATENED
BY DEPORTATION
Pennsylvania and 7 exas
War on FOreign-BOrn

" VI Ust " StSH-DUIH
Urgent appeals from five foreign
born workers, one in Texas, the 9TH
ers in Pennsylvania and all threaten
ed with immediate deportation have
come to the office Of international La
Dor Defense. A wire from Amh~ e,
Pa, tells Of the arrest of three <
workers by federal officials fossid-
ding meeting and distributing liter
allure in their own language.
Tony Stafford, union coal miner of
Italian birth, is now on Ellis Island
awaiting ship to Italy. He was TAX
en- from Moundsville prison, West
Va, where he has been confined for
five years on frame-up charge grow
ing out of strike in the coal fields.
He was lodged in the Pittsburgh, Pa.
county Jail by federal officers until
Monday morning when he was ship
ped to Ellis Island
Deportation Means Prison.
John Zagorski is confined in tank
six, Ell Paso, Texas, county jail. He
was intercepted coming from Mexico
where he entered on a Polish pass
port. The authorities have told him
he will be deported to Poland.
But zagorski is not a citizen of Po-
land. He has relatives in New Jersey
who are in possession of his birth
certificate that shows he was born
in the Ukraines Russia. He is a Rus
sian citizen. His deportation to Po-
land will mean prison and perhaps
death.
|. L. o. Retains Counsel.
International Labor Defense has
wired it's New York Office to immedi-
ately retain legal counsel to stay the
deportation of Stafford
1t has also notified Attorney Ed.
ward d. Tittmann of Ell Paso, of the
Zagorski case and he is preparing for
a legal battle for Zagorski's freedom
Wife Tells Story.
Mrs. Tony Stafford, wife of the de
portee and mother OF four children
whom Stafford has not seen for more
than six years, writes that the Z. E
White Coal Gu. Of Glenn White. w
Va, are behind the persecution o.
Stafford.
She writes, ~ want you to fully un
~ fes nf .
grudge against union officials that my
husband, who was one, is being per
secuted" Mrs. Stafford and her chill
dren are destitute and have appealed
for aid in bringing their husband and
father back to them.
Many More Involved.
1t is pointed out by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense that these two
new cases bear out its contention
that a drive Isl in progress against
all foreign born. workers who are ac-
tive in the labor movement.
The l. L. d. has already in hand
the defense of six other foreign-born
workers who are being proceeded
against by the labor department for
deportation. They are S. Zinich, edi-
tor of South Slavic labor paper I:
John Lassen, editor of a Hungarian
paper; John Schedel who has been
ordered deported for the second time,
Sauna Kannasto, Finnish working wo-
man arrested a few months ago and
A. Severino, naturalized citizen OF
Italian birth of the Cleveland Brick.
layers Union; E. Vajtauer, Czecho-
Sloyak editor.
!. L. D. Appeals for Help.
International Labor Defense is max.
ing every effort to break this wide.
spread drive ON active foreign-born
workers. The secretary, James p
Cannon said today that altho the l.
L. d. has been in existence for less
than a month, having been organized
at a national conference in Chicago
on June 2S, in that time the organ
ization has BEEN in receipt of a veri
table flood Of requests from all over
the country asking for help In de-
Tending foreigmborn and American
workers alike who are victims OF
frame-ups and prosecutions for their
activity in theaIabor movement The
!. L. d. calls upon all workers and
workers organizations to give imme
date financial aid to carry on the
fight against deportation and impris
onment of workers. The address is
International Labor Defense, 20 So
Lincoln st.. Chicago. III.