LUNCHROOM WORKER FROM GERMANY ROBBED OF PAY, FACES DEPORTATION
Baltimore, Maryland (JFK+50) On January 30, 1924, The Evening Star reports a sixteen year old illegal immigrant faces deportation after he reported to police that his pay had been stolen.
Oscar Kowalski, who came to America from Germany as a stowaway, had taken a job in a lunchroom, and was able to send his mother "a little money each week."
Police notified immigration authorities who say the young man "will probably be deported." In the meantime, Oscar is in jail "lunging his body against the iron bars."
SOURCE
"Pay Theft Reveals Boy Was Stowaway, Faces Deportation," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., January 30, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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