Case Summary

Joe Martin, the bound party, entered the country in 1907 from Russia and joined the IWW, a union organization, in 1914. On January 14th, 1918, the bound party was arrested on a warrant issued by the Secretary of Labor, William B. Wilson (unnamed in the petition). The bound party was charged with being an alien, advocating or teaching the destruction of property, and being likely to become a public charge. On March 26th, 1918, W. P. Callahan, immigration inspector, interrogated the bound party on these issues and found the charges to be substantiated. The attorney for the petitioner does not agree that the questions were relevant. On January 8th, 1919, a writ of Habeas Corpus was filed. The fate of the petition and the bound party are unknown.

Case Information

Petition type(s)

• Carceral

Petition subtype(s)

• Violation of immigration act of 1917
• Immigration
• Advocating or teaching the unlawful destruction of property
• Public charge

Sites of significance

• Immigration Detention Station (Everett, Washington)

Outcome

Unknown

Fate of bound party

Unknown

Case Citation

Citation: RG21 US District Courts, Western District of Washington, Seattle, Records of the Northern Division, Case Files, 1890-1972, No. 4502

Source material(s)

Case File

Length of case file

Between 6 and 10 pages

Repository(s)

• National Archives and Records Administration, Seattle Branch, Washington (Seattle, WA) (Seattle, Washington)

State

• Washington

Point(s) of law cited

U.S. Const. amend. V.

Tag(s)

• Labor organization
• Union

People

• Martin, Joe (bound party)
• Martin, Joe (petitioner)
• Pierce, Ralph S. (petitioner attorney)
• Vanderveer, George F. (George T. Vanderveer) (petitioner attorney)
• White, Henry M. (holding party)
• White, Henry M. (respondent)
• Wilson, William B. (authority ordering detention)
• Neterer, Jeremiah (judge)

• Additional parties

  Callahan, W. P. (Immigration Inspector); Harshberger, F. M. (Clerk); Leitch, D. E. (Deputy Clerk); Young, D. H. (Notary Public)