Biography
James Evans (1933 immigration detainee) was an immigration detainee actually held in Allegheny County jail in 1933. The June 15 Daily Worker reports that he was arrested at Uniontown in December 1932 while arranging food for hunger marchers and that habeas proceedings failed to stop a deportation order. A related appeal on page four prints the name James Evans. The account associates the detention with unemployed workers’ organizing, but does not establish a physical discharge or actual deportation. Exact admission and complete custody duration remain unknown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1933/v010-n143-NY-jun-15-1933-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
Sources
The June 12 Pittsburgh dispatch in the June 14, 1933 Daily Worker individually names James Evans among four workers held in Allegheny County jail by immigration authorities. It reports that Judge Schoonmaker refused writs of habeas corpus and that their deportation was ordered; this is not evidence that the order was carried out or that they were physically released. The report identifies Evans as a National Miners Union leader arrested in a hall at Uniontown the previous December while arranging food for National Hunger Marchers.
