What Is the Root of the Deportation?

Hundreds of i w w leaders were tried on charges of espionage. Every defendant was found guilty after less than an hour of deliberation. The district attorney of philadelphia called these raids and the trial that followed as undertaken very largely to put the i w w out of business. Some joined the military or found work in mines in other cities. But many of them found themselves cut off from their homes, with really nowhere else to go.