Word: bittelman
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...sons, is the party's national labor secretary and a member of its twelve-man policymaking board. The Justice Department identified him as fourth in the U.S. party's hierarchy, called him "the most important figure" it has picked up to date (others: Gerhart Eisler,* Alexander Bittelman, Claudia Jones...
Like Alexander Bittelman, the Russian-born Communist intellectual picked up a fortnight ago in Miami, she is an alien. She came to the U.S. from Trinidad in 1924, and the Department of Justice would like to send her back. She spent one night on Ellis Island and then was bailed out for $1,000. Promptly the Communist apparatus of protest (which involves meetings, indignant telegrams, denunciations) meshed into gear...
...might be, however, that considerable time will elapse before Bittelman is deported to Russia or Claudia Jones to her native Trinidad. There will, of course, be the usual lengthy appeals to the courts. But even after they are exhausted, there is one other big hurdle in the way. Their native countries may simply refuse to take them back...
Russian-born Alexander Bittelman, said the Justice Department, arrived in the U.S. in 1912, joined the Communist Party in 1919, had 14 aliases, filed notice of intention to become a U.S. citizen in 1935, then did nothing more about it. He wrote eloquent articles for Communist publications in the U.S., and became general secretary of Manhattan's Morning Freiheit Association, which publishes the Communist Yiddish-language newspaper, Morning Freiheit. For the past few years Bittelman has been a mild looking suburbanite, commuting from Croton on Hudson to Manhattan...
...Miami, where Bittelman and wife lived quietly in an expensive apartment, spending most of their time reading on the lawn, neighbors were floored. Said one of them: "He was a very nice gentleman, very timid." The Department of Justice thought differently. It charged him with advocating the violent "overthrow of the U.S. Government," released him on $5,000 bail...