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December 7. 1950. page 2. that Five Los Angeles residents. including Frank Spector. veteran of many historic labor battles in California and widely known Communist. were informed today that. under the MeCarran Act. they are expected to deport themselves" and that failure to do so will subject them to criminal prosecution. The daily Peoples World for June 13. 1951. page 1. showed Frank Spector. Communist Party leader. as facing deportation. and in the July 10. 1951. issue. pages 3 and 6 showed him as being out on bail and as speaking at a reception held by the Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born (C1956) in his honor on July 8 at Parkview Manor. According to the same paper. July 11. 1951. page 3. the case was continued until July 19 when the defense motion will be argued and that "Spector continued at liberty on $15.000 bail raised by the Los Angeles civil rights bail fund." The Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born was defending Spector in his deportation fight. according to the Lamp. December 1951January 1952. page 1. and he was listed in the organizations booklet containing the program and greetings for its conference on February 7. 1953 (p. 17) as one of the "80 deportees of the Los Angeles committee * * *" who sent greetings. The proceedings of this conference. February 7. 1953. page 4. showed Frank Spector as being elected to the resolutions committee for the conference. and he was still listed as one of the "victims of deportation" in the souvenir journal issued by the Los Angeles Committee for Protection of Foreign Born for its fourth annual conference in Los Angeles. February 28. 1954. page 4. On November 19. 1953. page 6. the Daily Worker contained an article datelined. "Los Angeles. November 8." which noted that. after a final Immigration Department order. the Frank Spector trial had been set by Judge William Mathes to begin February 15. and added: "Spector. who came to the United States as a youth. has been active ever since in trade union and progressive struggles. first in New York. then around Chicago. and since the 1920s in Los Angeles. "He was first ordered deported in 1930. But the Government took no steps to carry out the order until after passage of the 1950 McCarran law. "He was indicted on 4 counts. but Judge Mathes dismissed 2 of them as faulty. The Government carried the Mathes dismissal to the United States Supreme Court and won reinstatement of the counts. "Meanwhile. Spectors lawyers. headed by Attorney John Porter. of foreign born legal panel. challenged validity of the 1930 deportation order. "This challenge is now pending an appeal before the ninth circut court at San Francisco. Should there be a circuit court ruling. the February 15 trial date in the McCarran case may be postponed. Judge Mathes indicated." Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. in her column in the Daily Worker.