Benjamin Cruz

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1950s
State:California
Support
Communism Labor Organizing
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Biography

Benjamin Cruz was a Guatemalan-born officer of the Furniture Workers Union in Los Angeles who in 1958 was served with notice of denaturalization proceedings for allegedly denying Communist Party membership in his 1945 citizenship application.

Case

Charges: Walter-McCarran Act denaturalization
Sentence: Facing loss of citizenship; fighting denaturalization Charges as recorded: Walter-McCarran Act denaturalization — alleged concealment of Communist Party membership
Convicted: Denaturalization proceedings begun

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