Hellraisers Journal – Sunday February 23, 1919
New York, New York – Chinese Fellow Workers Arrested and Deported
From the South Bend (Indiana) News of February 21, 1919:
RAID ON CHINESE I. W. W. MAY CAUSE DEPORTATIONS
[Detail]
I. W. W. Organizers: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Harry Kelly, Jack Isaacson, Carlo Tresca, and Frank Levy —–
Thousands of Chinese in the United States may be deported as a result of the recent discovery in New York of an active Chinese branch of the I. W. W. Just as Chinese there prepared to sow discontent among their fellow countrymen by misrepresentation, intimidation and other means the police stepped in and obtained sufficient evidence to cause the deportation of four Chinese. In the round up of the Chinese I. W. W. fifteen prisoners were taken and eleven remained to be tried by the federal authorities. The Accompanying pictures shows some of the most prominent agitators.
The New York Rebel Worker (formerly The Labor Defender) of February 15, 1919, described the raid on the Chinese I. W. W. meeting as “brutal.” Sadly, we have little additional information on the raid or on the status of the imprisoned Fellow Workers at this time.
Asian American Studies Classweb
Asian Pacific American Labor Organizing: An Annotated Bibliography, Part I: Historical Struggles, 1840s – 1960s
By Glenn Omatsu
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“Only a Damn Chink,” Rebel Worker 2 (February 15, 1919).
A brutal raid on a Chinese IWW meeting in New York. http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/classweb/winter02/aas197a/otozpart1.html
See also:
“Japanese and Chinese Exclusion or Industrial Organization, Which?”
-by J. H. Walsh
From Industrial Union Bulletin -page 3, April 11, 1908
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