Biography
George Stalker was a workers' leader deported from Omaha, Nebraska to Scotland in May 1933. The Daily Worker of August 31, 1933, page 2, quotes his letter to the International Labor Defense describing his family's life in a tent six miles north of Dundee, inability to obtain housing and relief reduced from 22 shillings to one pound a week. He wrote that his wife and three children, aged 15, 13 and 9, depended on that relief. This is an account of completed U.S. deportation and subsequent hardship, not merely a pending deportation order. The report gives the month of removal but no exact day, prior detention endpoints, formal immigration charge or later return.
The Daily Worker of October 21, 1932, page 3, reports from Omaha on October 19 that immigration authorities were taking final steps toward Stalker's deportation. It attributes the campaign against him to his organizing a dance open to Black and white workers and records an International Labor Defense appeal for protests to immigration official Frank Hayes and Labor Secretary William N. Doak. This is evidence of a pending 1932 proceeding, not proof that removal occurred then; the independently documented May 1933 deportation remains separate. No physical detention dates are provided. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n252-NY-oct-21-1932-DW-LOC.pdf
The June 5 report describes the Omaha Communist’s deportation to Scotland the preceding Saturday after about six months at Ellis Island, following earlier Omaha jail sentences of thirty days for contempt and twenty days for vagrancy. These are different custody stages, not automatically a single complete duration. His U.S.-born children were affected by the family’s removal. Daily Worker, June 5, 1933, original PDF page 2. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n134-NY-jun-05-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2