Margaret Roy

AKA: Margaret Ray
Released
Date of birth:1893
Era:1910s
Time Imprisoned:
9 Months 22 Days
Support
Socialism Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Socialist Party of America
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Biography

Margaret Roy was born 1893 in Milmathort, Scotland. Worked as a laborer. Immigrated to the United States in 1916.

Emigrated to Canada in 1913, then returned to Scotland in 1916 to retrieve her sister Janet.

In Lawrence, Massachusetts, she and Janet 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 during a raid on an IWW hall in October 1918. She married U.S. citizen Alonzo Ray in January 1919, but was deported July 23, 1919.

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
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. 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.

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