The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-05
DEPORTATIONS
GO ON UNDER
THE NEW DEAL"
Perkins Con tin ue S
Doak Policy

The wave of depoftations against
militant workers has been directed
particularly against two revolutionary
unions, the National Textile Workers
Union and the National Miners
Union.
While some of the cases originated
under Doak, Secretary of Labor under
Hoover, nevertheless the present
much-touted "libera secretary,
Frances Perkins, has not only con-
tinued the prosecution of these work
ers, but her department has inten-
sified the campaign against foreign
born militants.
Thirteen workers in Pittsburgh dis
trict are facing deportation, and IL
Of them are members of the N. M U.
These include Frank Borich, secre-
tary Of the N, NJ. u, Vincent Kane
nevich, district organizer Of the
Western Pennsylvania district whom
the Department of Labor is trying to
exile to fascist Jugoslavia; other
members of the N. M. U. slated for
deportation are Norman Davis, Joe
Shafer, Joe Yakerlin, Steve Devanieh
and S. Which.
Many Arrests
With the chief fire in New Eng
land being directed against the Ma
tional Textile Workers Union, at
least three of its leaders are now
facing deportation. These are Edith
Berkmail, now at a sanitoriun suf-
fering from tuberculosis; Anna Bur-
lax, and June Croll, textile organizer
arrested at a recent meeting of the
National Board of the N. T. w. U.
Anna Bloch is still held by the De-
partment Of Labor on heavy bail be-
cause of her activities in connection
with the National Hunger March.
Bernard Creegan, another fighter for
the unemployed has just been or
dered deported Those previously ar
rested are Saul Paul, Wasil Bilida,
Joseph Guberski, Benjamin Saul and
Goldie Waldman.
On May s, Paul Martlnove was ar
rested at a Cleveland unemployed
demonstration, beaten up and held
for deportation A series of protest
meetings protesting against the ar
rest of Martinove and the whole cam
paign against the foreign born are
now being held by the I. L. D. and
the National Committee for the De-
tense of Political Prisoners.
This, of course, is only partial list
OF workers arrested and held for de-
portation.
The attack on the foreign born is
not limited to thae districts, how
ever. Agents of the Department of
Labor continue to Jail workers in
various parts of the country, and
scores of workers are picked off jobs
and breadlines about whom the /. L.
D. often does not learn. Many
of these workers are charged with
illegal entry" and are swiftly, de-
ported.
The Thomas Case
A sinister feature of the present
campaign of the Department of Labor
is shown in the case of B. c. (Jack)
Thomas in Pittsburgh. Thomas has
just been convicted and faces Is years
Imprisonment, to be followed by de-
portation, on the ground that when
he applied for American citizenship
some years ago he was member Of
the Young Workers NOW Young
Communist) League.
Arguing that "inasmuch as the
Young Communist League is not
attached to the principals of the
U. S. constitution the prosecution
demanded d conviction against
Thomas on the ground that he
swore falsely that he would support
the constitution Of the U. s. when
he applied for citizenship.
Thomas is a former miner and steel
worker, and his arrest and conviction
is stirring the workers in the Pitts
burgh district against this latest at
tack by the Department of Labor"