Biography
Mario Giletti was an Italian-American anti-fascist who served nine months at the Comstock (Great Meadow) prison in New York for fighting Mussolini's Blackshirts in the streets, and on his release in 1929 was seized by the immigration authorities and held for deportation to Fascist Italy — a case the ILD's Labor Defender fought as doubly unjust.
The January 14, 1930 issue reports that International Labor Defense succeeded in changing his deportation destination from Italy to the Soviet Union and that he was en route to Moscow. This supplies the reported outcome of the deportation campaign but no exact physical discharge, departure or arrival date; none is invented. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1930/v06-n267-NY-jan-14-1930-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
The report identifies Giletti among Italian workers whose threatened deportations the International Labor Defense opposed, alongside John Piccollelli. It documents defense advocacy in the existing immigration case, not proof of a new arrest or executed removal. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n053-NY-may-09-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
The April 26 report describes Isaac Shorr’s advocacy against threatened Italian deportation while Giletti was expected to finish a nominal two-year sentence. An expected end-of-month discharge is prospective; it does not replace independently reported actual service or prove accomplished removal. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n044-NY-apr-26-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=5
The July 24 account says the Labor Department denied permission for voluntary departure to a country other than Italy and describes Shorr, Brodsky and King pursuing a circuit-court challenge. It disputes newspaper claims that permission had already been granted. This intermediate legal step precedes the later November letter and January 1930 journey; it is not itself physical release or a new detention. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1929/1929-ny/v06-n118-NY-jul-24-1929-DW-LOC.pdf#page=2
Reported legal right to leave for the Soviet Union
In a signed letter printed in the November 25, 1929 Daily Worker, Mario Giletti says a court recognized his right to go to the Soviet Union, following a campaign against threatened deportation to Fascist Italy. This is his contemporary account of a legal decision, not evidence of an actual departure or release on the publication date. No new custody endpoint, exile date or duration is inferred. The available opening is damaged, while the signed continuation preserves this statement.
Daily Worker, November 25, 1929, original PDF pages 1, 3. Contemporary claims are attributed to the source.
