The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-16

Shorr went at once to Washington
in cancelling deportation warrants
warrants speeded up.
Applied For Pardon.
Attorney General Harlan F. Stone
recommended that these former polit-
ical prisoners who had served under
wartime convictions be pardoned. The
men were first ordered ready for de.
portation on Sept. Is, 1923. Stay
of 60 days was granted during which
time application for pardon was made.
With pardons granted the possibili-
ty of ordering deportation as "unde-
sirable residents" due to their former
conviction was removed and for that
reason Shorr FASTENED to get the de-
partment of labor's cancellation Of de-
portation warrants which would be-
come effective January II.
Red international Committee Pleased.
CHICAGo-"Every adherent of the
Red International of Labor Unions
will be glad to learn that the Amer
lean working class is not to be de-
prived of these revolutionary workers
in whose behalf our committee has
been rousing the workers of many ma
tions," said Harrison George, chair
man of the Red International commit
tee Of the l. w. W., when informed
of the pardons granted in Washing
ton.
Some months ago." he continued,
when deportation of Mailer, Nigra,
Oates and Moran seemed impending,
the Red International Afiliation Com
mittee requested of Fellow Worker
Morris, then the secretary of the /.
w. w. Defense the complete data upon
the cases so we might carry on a
worldwide propaganda thru our inter
national connections.
"An Example of Yankee Justice"
while we did not receive all the
assistance desired and expected, we
were given enough data upon which
to begin a militant campaign to
stimulate a protest of these deporta-
tons by foreign workers on the basis
of an exposure, as we termed it, of
an example of Yankee Justice
"This exposure consisted of incon-
vertible proof that the federal govern
ment itself was fiagrantly violating not
only the federal constitutions plainest
provisions, but also the treaty rights
of foreign-born residents of this coun-
try. The deportations, if the govern
ment had dared to persist, could have
been carried out only at the expense
of further disillusioning further great
masses Of workers in other countries
as to the hypocritical claims that
America is land of democracy
r. I. A. c. Articles Widely Published
American imperialism which has
its own game to play against the gov.
ernments Of Europe, very much likes
to have the impression that America
is free country remain in the minds
of European populations. The articles
sent out by the r. /. A. c. thru its
international connections were pub
lished widely in hundreds of papers
and in all countries by the Commun-
list and Red International publications.
The publicity and protest evoked evil
IDENTIFY had a great bearing on the gov
ernment's decision to issue a pardon
the very first pardon granted any of
the |. w. w. imprisoned by the scores
during the war.
''In addition to this international
campaign, the Workers Party and the
Trade Union Educational League car
ried on a special campaign in this
country, making the deportation of
these four workers an issue in the A.
F. of L. and Independent unions. the
7. U. E. L. getting out special reso-
luton on the cases, which was taken
up in local unions"