Janet Johnstone Roy

AKA: Janet Johnstone MacKay

Released

Date of birth:1895

Date of death:1972

Age:77^{† Deceased}

Era:1910s

Time Imprisoned:

9 Months 22 Days

Time in Exile:

52 Years 5 Months 9 Days

Support

Socialism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Socialist Party of America

Biography

Janet Johnstone Roy was born 1895 in Milmathort, Scotland. Worked as a laborer. Immigrated to the United States in 1916.

Supported the Independent Labour Party before emigrating.

In Lawrence, Massachusetts, she joined the Socialist Party and the IWW’s Textile Workers Industrial Union No. 1000. After moving to Chicago and then Seattle, she was arrested with her sister in a police raid on an IWW hall in October 1918. She married Ian V. MacKay, a naturalized U.S. citizen, in January 1919. Deported July 23, 1919.

She later reunited with her husband in British Columbia, where she died in 1972.

Adapted from Kenyon Zimmer, Red Scare Deportees (kenyonzimmer.com), compiled from INS deportation case files.

Case

Charges: Administrative deportation under the wartime Immigration Acts — expelled as an alien radical (Industrial Workers of the World member) in the First Red Scare.

Arrested: October 1918

Incarcerated: October 1918

Released: Jul 23, 1919

In exile since: Jul 23, 1919

Exile ended: 1972

Sentence: Arrested in October 1918 and deported on July 23, 1919. The source records no release on bail or bond, so custody pending deportation is recorded from arrest to sailing; if evidence of an interim release surfaces, the span should be shortened. The exile is recorded as ending at death. Charges as recorded: Administrative deportation under the wartime Immigration Acts — expelled as an alien radical (Industrial Workers of the World member) in the First Red Scare. Documented in Kenyon Zimmer’s Red Scare Deportees index, drawn from INS deportation files.

Janet Johnstone Roy

Biography

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