Biography
Rade Radekovitch was a Yugoslav labor militant and Communist Party member held by United States immigration authorities. He was arrested in 1929 and threatened with deportation, but the International Labor Defense obtained his release. Authorities arrested him again in February 1930, accused him of Communist Party membership and illegal entry, and refused bond. The illegal-entry accusation arose from a brief crossing into Mexico at Nogales, Arizona: he was arrested after returning about ten minutes later. He was detained in Galveston, Texas, and deported to Yugoslavia on September 12, 1930, despite labor-defense protests that he faced persecution there.
The issue prints a Pittsburgh ILD protest telegram demanding a halt to the deportation of Guido Serio to Italy and Rade Radekovitch to Yugoslavia, and a national appeal for similar protests. It attributes Serio’s persecution to building-trades organizing into TUUL unions. This is a defense-campaign record before the feared deportations, not proof of an actual departure, a new jail admission or discharge.
