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red raids, were ordered deported on
March 14th after flve-year fight
against the deportation. Voinovic is
member of the socialist labor party.
Further efforts will be made to stop
their deportation.
California;: Appeal in the case of
Powell ct al was denied by the third
district court of appeals on March
4th. Eight of the nine l. w. WIS in
the case were arrested at Eureka in
October, 1928 One was arrested at
Trinidad two weeks later and includ-
ed in the same indictment They were
convicted in April, 1924 after their
first trial had resulted in hung jury.
WobbIy Given Six Months
Charles D. Criswold, l. w. w. ar
rested at Westwood on March 9Th on
criminal syndicalism charges Cater
changed to violation of the Busick
injunetion) was convicted on March
9Th and sentenced to months in the
county jail
T. ]. Smith, T. Foley, E. Scheisser,
c. Anderson and ]. Nolan, I. w. WIS,
arrested at SACRAMENTO on March g.,
on vagrancy charges were released
on March IS.
Allen Doble, I. w. w. newsletter,
arrested at Los Angeles on vagrancy
charges and held for 46 days, was dis
charged on March Bird. This was
Doble's third arrest in three months,
the first time for violation of the
criminal syndicalism law, and then
for violation of the Busick injunction.
In both of these cases, the charge was
dismissed also.
w. l. Fruit, I. W. w. convicted at
Los Angeles in 1921, was released
from San Quentin on March II,
upon expiration of sentence.
Arizona: Robert Ayner, I. w. w
arrested on vagrancy charges at Phoe-
nix on Jan. 81 and sentenced to 10
days in Jail, is still being detained for
deportation to Canada. j.. D. Hart,
John Martin and G. NJ. Monroe, I. w.
WIS arrested March 81, at Phoenix on
vagrancy charges, were found not
guilty.
Discharge Detroit Communists
Michigan: Seven men and one wo-
man, members of the Workers Party,
arrested by the Detroit police when
they attacked a demonstration before
the Polish consulate on March % in
protest against the death sentence i'm
posed by the Polish government upon
Lanzutsky, a Communist, were later
discharged.
Academic Freedom"
Missouri: The appropriation bill for
the maintenance of the state univers-
ity and school passed by the legisla-
ture in March provides that no insti-
tuition supported by the state shall
employ any person who teaches or ad-
vocates in public or private "that the
citizens Of this state should not pro-
tect the government of the United
States from aggression from other
nations"
TENNESSEE: A bill forbidding the
teaching Of the theory of evolution
in state-supported schools was signed
by Governor Peay on March 23.
Massachusetts: Because of an at
tack on the reserve officers train
ing corps in an editorial in the March
issue of the Beanpot, Dean Everett
w. Lord of Boston University has
called for the resignation of Henrietta
Perkins, managing editor Of the uni
versity publication.
Gag Legislation
Idaho: Governor Moore this month
signed an amendment to the state
criminal syndicalism law defining the
word sabotage" to mean damage,
injury and destruction of personal
property; work done in an improper
manner; tampering with or disabling
of machinery; improper use of ma
terials; lettering at work; slack work;
slowing down work or production;
scamped work; waste Of property;
the publication Of trade secrets; or
either of any of the foregoing acts
when done wilfully or maliciously."
California: The bill to repeal the
state criminal syndicalist law, intro
duced by Assemblyman Hornblower,
was tabled this month by the unani.
mona vote of the Judiciary committed