Biography
Sol Ehrlich, also recorded as Sol Erlick, was an Industrial Workers of the World member and secretary of its Monroe, Washington, local who was confined in immigration detention in Washington and transferred to Ellis Island in proceedings seeking his deportation to Russia. Federal file 54379/12 includes his May 7, 1918 letter from the United States Detention Station in Seattle describing nearly five months of confinement. The hearing record gives conflicting initial arrest accounts, including January 14, 1918 at Seattle and an Everett arrest in a later memorandum; an exact initial custody date is therefore not asserted. Direct Ellis Island correspondence records that he was actually released on bond, and a December 2, 1919 letter confirms that release had occurred months earlier. The exact release day and complete actual custody duration are unknown. A December 8, 1919 Seattle office letter merely presumed that he had been deported because it had received no notice; that presumption is not treated as proof of completed deportation in light of the direct bond-release evidence. Source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Hearings_before_the_Committee_on_Immigration_and_Naturalization_-_H._of_R.%2C_66th_Congress_%28IA_cu31924051624827%29.pdf#page=609
