Biography
Jesus Pallares founded the Liga Obrera de Habla Española among New Mexico coal miners. Authorities arrested him in Santa Fe in April 1935 during the campaign against foreign-born labor organizers after the Gallup confrontation. He was held in Santa Fe County Jail while immigration officials pursued his deportation to Mexico. Six deportation hearings ended on May 21, 1935, with District Immigration Supervisor Nick D. Collaer presiding. Supporters arranged a $1,000 bond requiring two bondsmen as the International Labor Defense fought the deportation proceedings.
The Daily Worker of April 3, 1936 reports that deportation proceedings connected to the Gallup case were still being pursued against Pallares.
Page 1’s April 28 Santa Fe report individually identifies Pallares as a Liga Obrera district organizer recently seized without a warrant in the deportation campaign after the April 4 Gallup confrontation. It credits him with mobilizing 500 workers at the State Senate against the criminal-syndicalism bill and leading Santa Fe support against Gallup repression. Page 2 explains the defense concern that deportations would remove material witnesses. This is the existing immigration case; the forty-person total is not assigned as an individual custody duration or outcome. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n102-NAT-apr-29-1935-DW-Q.pdf
Page 1 reports actual release on bond on Wednesday, May 22. The individually specified amount is unreported individual amount. Pallares is separately described as under deportation proceedings. The four named escape-charge defendants include an unexpanded “Mrs. Avitia”; her given name is not assumed. This bond release is a custody endpoint, not acquittal or termination of proceedings. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n125-NAT-may-25-1935-DW-Q.pdf
Printed Jesus Parllares, the Santa Fe WPA and Gallup-defense organizer is individually reported held in Santa Fe jail under deportation proceedings in the January 19 dispatch. His existing April 1935 detention ended in May bond release, so this later physical confinement is represented separately without assuming uninterrupted custody or an exact rearrest day. Daily Worker, January 20, 1936, original PDF page 5. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n017-NY-jan-20-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=5
Daily Worker, April 29, 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Daily Worker, May 25, 1935; relevant page stated in the accompanying profile note.
Philip Stevenson’s April 15, 1936 Daily Worker profile, printed as Jesus Pellares, says he was arrested at his FERA job on April 23 and jailed in deportation proceedings. The July 13, 1936 Western Worker explicitly dates the arrest to April 23, 1935, identifying the New Mexico miners’ organizer, Liga Obrera and Gallup defense campaign. Read together, these reports establish April 23, 1935 as the arrest and physical jailing day in the earlier case. His separately documented May 22, 1935 release on bond ends that confinement; the later renewed detention remains a separate episode with an unresolved duration.
The July report also says the Labor Department deported him to Mexico on June 29, 1936, leaving his wife and six American-born children in the United States. This later removal does not establish continuous confinement from the April 1935 arrest through deportation or a precise jail-release day for the renewed 1936 episode.
Daily Worker, April 15, 1936, page 7; Western Worker, July 13, 1936, page 6.
The July 13, 1936 Western Worker reports that the Labor Department deported Pallares to Mexico on June 29 after twenty-six years in the United States. It identifies him as an organizer of the United Mine Workers and Liga Obrera de Habla Española and links the deportation campaign to the Gallup miners’ struggle. This dated deportation is not an inferred first jail admission or a complete continuous custody interval.
