This article analyzes the public repercussion of the deportation of 23 immigrants in 1919, including the militant Everardo Dias, on board of the steamer Benevente. This episode reveals important features of the repression of the labor movement in Brazil, since it raised a debate about the violation of the rights of foreign workers, which had become a common practice in that period. In addition, it is possible to see in this episode the importance of the press in the battle that labor movement fought in defense of the victims of repression.
labor movement; immigrants; deportation