Word: deportations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Schomaker's devastating testimony was unshaken and the Government had produced another ex-Communist to substantiate it. For the first time in its ten-year effort to deport Harry Bridges to his native Australia, the U.S. seemed to be getting somewhere...
...moreover, a lengthy list of people awaiting a Supreme Court definition of requirements for United States citizenship. In this group is Harry Bridges, head of Pacific Coast Longshoremen, who is under Federal indictment for using improper methods in obtaining citizenship in 1945. At that time the government tried to deport Bridges, but the Supreme Court found that the District Attorney did not prove his accusation--Bridges was not a Communist. Two former German Bund leaders, Fritz Kuhn, and August Klaprott, and one of Al Capone's old assistants, Anthony Volpe, may also have their cases reviewed this session. Though...
...members to "take every step to root [Communists] out of our union completely." Then the delegates upheld the expulsion of five of the N.M.U.'s noisiest left-wing troublemakers. Among them: ex-Vice President Joe Stack and onetime National Secretary Ferdinand Smith, whom the U.S. is trying to deport as an alien...
...Government's case sticks, hawk-nosed Harry Bridges faces the possibility of a maximum of seven years' imprisonment, then deportation, In its previous attempts to deport Bridges, in 1939 and 1941, the Government cited Bridges' ties with Communist-front organizations, and produced witnesses who said they had heard him admit to being a Communist. The U.S. Supreme Court in 1945 ruled the evidence insufficient...
...that time Eisler discussed the deportation proceedings which the American government had instituted against him. Those proceedings are still under way. Eisler, who wants to leave this country to become professor of Political Science at the University of Leipzig, is being kept in the United States until either the government is able to deport him or the proceedings are quashed...