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*In presenting to the Comittee stateneats and sa>staxtiating oridence vith respect to ths operations of the. Department ef Imnig tlon snd Eaturalizaties, xnder th. centrel ef Secretary of Laber Jrances Perhins, It is iefinitely and spseirically eharged that Kadan Perkins has been guilty of derelictioa ot duty in h.r failu. "A. farther aridenee of her failurs to aischarge the dnties or her effice ths atteatioa of ths Committes is bere directed to the rithhold the doportation of 2,662 aliens In the expoctation that .Congress vill roviss our Inmigratiea sad Sataralizatiea laws.. (61-7582 Vol. 3. Copy C, p.2001): Ay letter dated Mevenber l6, 193e, stophen r. Chadviek, at that time Secretary of Labor, that the fmeriean Legies at its coaveatioa beld in Les Angeles: California, Septeabar 19-22. 1938, had adoptod tve resolutions. "Be it resolved dy the Iational Coaveation of the American Legio. in convention assembled, Thst we demand the imasdiat. trial andd d portation er Earry Bridges and like sndesirabl. aliems. *kherees certain offieials of the Dopartmant of Labor bave failed miserably 1n the enforcement of levs relative to immigration aad deportation; .....*. "Resolved ths American Legion in Xational Coxrention at Les Angeles donands that the Coagress of ths Umlted states iavestigate the failnre ef these officials to couply with the existing imigration lavs and take cuch steps aa aay b necessary to correct this wwarraated failurs of duty.*. (61-7582 Vol.-4, Copy A, p. 2957). In an articl. ia the Xow York *fimes* dated July 29. 1940. eaptioned "Aid to Aliens Laid to Miss Perkins'. it was atated that the Kational Small Businessmen's Associatioa had charged thst nore than Too sliens. cailty e? deportadle effenses. had boen grantod exemption fron depertatien by Secretarjd Of Laber Frances Perkias.d (94-1-7451-A) There is transnitted herewith ss an eaclosare to iastant ae. a copy of.. pamphlot satitled *rhe Impeachmeat sf Frances Perkias". The Batorial in this pamphlet xas taken froa the Congressieaal Record fer Jannd