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Gus Polites

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Michigan
Support
Labor Organizing Communism
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Biography

Gus Polites was a 59-year-old Detroit restaurant and auto worker who had come from Greece in 1916. In 1958 he was fighting deportation on grounds that included his participation in unemployed demonstrations in the 1930s and his union organizing.

Case

Charges: Walter-McCarran Act deportation — 1930s unemployed demonstrations and union activity
Sentence: Under deportation proceedings; fighting removal
Convicted: Deportation proceedings