Steve Tandaric

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Illinois
Support
Labor Organizing Communism Congress of Industrial Organizations
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Biography

Steve Tandaric was a pioneer CIO steel organizer and a veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who fought Franco in Spain, pursued for deportation for two decades. Arrested by federal agents in March 1957 and held without bail at the Chicago Detention Center, he won a stay pending judicial review of the 1951 deportation order against him.

Case

Charges: Deportation under the immigration / McCarran Internal Security Act
Sentence: Deportation detention; denied bail; stay won pending review Charges as recorded: Deportation under the immigration / McCarran Internal Security Act — for radical labor and anti-fascist activity
Convicted: Final deportation order (1951); arrested and held for deportation 1957

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