Biography
Tetsuji Horiuchi, a Trade Union Unity League organizer and leader of Japanese workers in the Imperial Valley farm workers strike, received a three- to thirty-three-year prison sentence for violating the California Criminal Syndicalism Act and served in Folsom State Prison from June 1930 to January 1932. (Also see the entry for Lawrence Emery.) Upon Horiuchi's release from prison the U.S. Department of Labor withdrew its deportation order and allowed him to depart "voluntarily" for the Soviet Union. He left the United States on August 17, 1932.
