Several party members then began to work in the Imperial Valley, organizing Filipino and Mexican field workers. Local authorities responded by arresting the most prominent organizers and charging them under the criminal syndicalism law. Of the eleven arrested, three were deported and one was found not guilty. The remaining seven, including Frank Spector, were sentenced to prison terms and two were deported.51 Those events contributed to the departure of two more factional leaders, Frank Spector and Frank Waldron. Spector was convicted of criminal syndicalism in June 1930 and imprisoned in San Quentin until his conviction was reversed on appeal in July 1931. He and others used their time in prison to conduct study groups among the prisoners and recruit CP members. After his release Spector worked for a time as an ILD organizer in New York.52 Waldron, under indictment for criminal syndicalism, fled to New York, took the name Tim Ryan, went to Moscow, and was soon joined by Reggie Karasick and their one-year-old son, Tim. [...]