Biography
Philip Giambattista was listed on the ILD's 1932 winter-relief roster of Western Pennsylvania class-war prisoners — coal strikers and sedition-law defendants jailed in the Pittsburgh-district struggles — confined at the Allegheny County Jail in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
A December 8, 1931 International Labor Defense statement printed December 11 identifies Philip Giambatista, a spelling variant in the Pennsylvania custody context, as jailed pending deportation to Italy under $3,000 cash bail. Perlich, Budich and Popovich were held under $1,000 each for proposed deportation to Yugoslavia. This supplies an individual immigration basis beyond the later roster’s generic sedition-law grouping; no completed deportation or exact custody endpoint is supplied. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n297-NY-dec-11-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
Philip Giambatista was a National Miners Union organizer arrested in a state-and-federal police raid on the union’s Brownsville headquarters. The November 27, 1931 Daily Worker explicitly reports that he was being held on deportation charges. The Fayette County hunger marchers’ demands included his release alongside the imprisoned miners. The source does not supply his exact arrest or physical admission, a final immigration decision, physical release or accomplished deportation; complete custody duration remains unknown. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n285-NY-nov-27-1931-DW-LOC.pdf#page=4
The April 20, 1932 Daily Worker reports Giambatista traveling with American tractor mechanics en route to the Soviet Union. He and Labor Defender delegate Sam Gerber signed a cable contributing to the Scottsboro defense. The ILD had secured permission for him to go to the Soviet Union instead of fascist Italy. This is an actual journey report beyond the earlier request and permission, but supplies no exact U.S. departure, prison-exit or arrival day. The single-t source spelling is retained as an alias of Giambattista. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n094-NY-apr-20-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
In a signed letter published in April 1932, Philip Giambattista describes being held pending deportation while immigration officials sought an Italian passport. He explicitly says that a planned January 26 transfer to Ellis Island did not occur; his expectation of a later transfer is not proof that it happened. He identifies his wife as Annie, gives her Brownsville, Pennsylvania mailing address, and says they had three children and faced eviction after falling behind on rent. He asks whether the International Labor Defense can help his family join him in the Soviet Union rather than leave them behind if he is deported. These are his contemporary statements and requests, not proof of a completed removal, destination or discharge date.
Sources
Mary Borich’s delegation statement says Philip de Giambatista had been deported about fifteen months earlier, leaving his wife and three American-born children in New York. That rounded retrospective interval differs from the already sourced April 1932 departure account and does not establish a replacement exact departure day or destination. The separately listed Philip Giambatista profile remains an unresolved duplicate lead; neither record is silently merged or removed.
