Montana labor news., 1936-08-20
Alien Deportation :
Naturalization

800 49,
iourned, three bills dealing with for
eign born were passed by the House OF
Representatives, and were killed with
the end OF the session. Rep. Diskstein
Of New York, the man who had been
chairman of the Committee for the In
vestigation of Nazism, Facism, and
Communism in the United States, was
the initiator OF them all
H. r. 1926 provided for the elimina-
ton Of foreign-born actors and artists
from employment in the United States.
H. r. 3472 provided for the return to
their homeland Of all non-citizens who
fall into distress or need public aid.
Though the latter bill is net a law,
its sentiment is incorporated in the de-
cision handed down by Federal Wayne
G. Borah on June 10, which denied
citizenship to four applicants whose pa
pers were in order but who were on
New Orleans, Louisiana, relief rolls.
The decision wa without precedent,
resting upon the judges opinion that
no person upon the judges opinion that
to the support of the federal govern
ment by payment Of taxes was eligible
for citizenship.
The Alien Deportation Bill, H. R..
722l, passing by a vote OF Isl to p,
provided for ID shortening or termi-
nation OF stay in United States of alien
visitors, who, while here, promoted dis
semination of "serbersiye propaganda
instigated from foreign sources-Com-
munism, Fascism, Nazisfn, ETC." and
% deportation OF an alien who is a
legal resident but carries on activities
OF the above nature. According to op-
ponents OF the bill, this would make re
Hgious and political speakers visiting in
United States liable to deportation.
Many aliens are being deported con
stantly under the existing laws. The
American Committee for the Protection
OF Foreign born reports that in the fis-
cal year ended June 80, 1885, more than
5000 persons were deported from the
United States, and approximately 1000
left voluntarily when threatened with
deportation.
Notes on cases OF persons at present
threatened with deportation to Nazi
Germany and Fascist Italy, who will be
imprisoned on their arrival in those
countries because of their anti-Nazi and
anti-Fascist sympathies and activities
ID Otto Richter: Beaten by storm
troopers after the Reiehstag fire; es-
capped from Germany, picked up by i'm.
migration agents in San Francisco
Married to American citizen is now or
Ellis Island, refused bail. He may be
deported at any moment.
~ Adam Mueller: Anti-Nazi fac.
ing deportation to Germany. Residen.
Of U. S. since 1927; employed for las.
eight years. A temporary stay unit
August Is.
(3) Eric Saupe, Josef Genghofe.
and Benno Martini Held for depot
tation to Germany; temporary stay
"a Vincent Ferrero and DomenicI
S~allitto United States resident 70.
{ thirty and fifteen years respectively
arrested without warrants April II
1884.
(5) Walter Baer. Born 40 mile
north OF Calexico, Calf, in 1898
worked as engineer; is a married MAI
with wife and three children. He wa.
the founder of the Portland Anti-Pol
luton Council, whose work was bitterly
opposed by the Armour & Swift Fer
tilizer Trust, and a group Of bankers
headed by J. c. Ainsworth, ARRESTED
without warrant April, 1884; held 70.
deportation on charge OF moral tur
pitude."
(6) Arthur and Elise Ewert: The,
are Brazilian anti-Fasicsts held in Bra
I'll for deportation to Germany. Thu
i American Committee for the Defens,
OF Political Prisoners is campaigning
+ for their deportation to a country o
their own choice.
The Deficiency Bill, which carrie,
relief appropriation Of the federal gov
eminent, contained the rider tina
those in charge OF agencies and prof
ects shall not knowingly employ alien
in the country illegally" The actor
taken by the Unemployment Servic'
OF the Labor Department, which is tn,
clearing agency for WPA jobs will de
= mand proof Of legal entry into til.
United States and will cooperate witt
t the Labor Department in barring iron
p jobs those aliens who have no. legal.
t entered this country.