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labor leader. I don't know whether any Communist at that time ought to have been deported. One case which was famous in the Immigration Service, though it wasn't famous anywhere else, was that of a poor fellow down in the Kentucky mines in Harlan County, where there wasn't any union, who had joined the Communist party through an organizer who got in there. He spoke no English, was a Hungarian, I think. He had been told by the organiser that in America this Communist party which he represented - the organizer spoks Hungarian - was the same thing as the union in the old country. You had to belong to it privately because the operators didn't like unions, but it was as good as the union. It was the only thing that represented or helped the working people. Here he was a Hungarian immigrant, not very long in this country, down in Harlan County, Kentucky.

Well, his case had been appealed. Somebody had taken him up and it had been appealed. But they deported him all right and the court supported them. Even though he joined it without full knowledge of what it was, the court held, he was actually engaged in an enterprise which might overthrow the government by force and violence, because he had paid his dues which were two dollars a year, or something like that. That had been done before