The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-08-18
BY Georne 2. West.

/ united states Department OF Labor to
. cruelty by deportation, heroic
young native Of Bulgaria whose only
crime has been TO use his brains and
. courage on ,he side of the iron miners
now on strike in Minnesota?
/ u George Audreyt chine. disciple OF
/ Iolstoy Thoreau and William Lloyd
/ Garrison, is deported to Bulgaria he
will be shot for rcfusing to enter the
army and fight for nationalist ideas
which he long ago ropudiated when a
student in Sofia and Germany.
If he takes advantage Of an offer
from the immigration offices to be
permitted to pay his own passage to
South America, the Steel Corpora
tons gunner and attorneys in north
ern Minnesota will have succeeded
just as effectually in their object Of
driving him from the country
Within two weeks Andreytchine's
case will be settled. Al the end of
that time he will be deported to Bull
garia and almost certain execution, or
forced to leave for South America, or
turned back to the sheriff Of Itasca
County in Minnesota to stand trial
for melting to riot. Andreytchine is
anxious to 30 back and fight the case
trumped up agaisnt him on the testi-
mOny Of the sheriff and the local
head Of the Steel Corporations police
The corporation chief of police
testified that he never saw Andreyt-
chine commit any act of violence, but
that on the other hnad he had pre-
vented a clash between the strikers
that in public meetings he had ad-
vised the strikers to avoid going
about in crowds and to keep away
from the company gunner. Andreyt-
chine admits that he told the strikers
at public meetings, to strike back if
the company guards insisted on at
lacking them without proyocation.
Until the strike began this summer,
Andreytchine, % years old, highly
educated, and an office employee of
the Steel Corporation at Hibbng, was
favorite OF the company officials
and their families because of his in
teresting' views on the rights of
/ labor and the sinfulness of force and
violence. But when he joined the
strikers and addressed their meetings
he became at once a dangerous alien
He was beaten up by company chief
of police, arrested by Sheriff Gunder-
son of Itasca County and held in jail
for melting to riot. Then the Z. S
immigration inspector at Duluth
Brown Mcdonald, was appealed to-
and Mcdonald set to work to make a
record that would procure the young
mans deportation.
In flippant report to Washington
Mcdonald urged deportation, on the
ground that Andreytchine, like old
Man Tray, is in bad company for a
pacifist He is a dangerous man be.
cause he is smart, has acquired a
knowledge of English within less than
three years that is remarkable and a
vocabulary that many native borns do
not possess. Also" adds Mcdonald,
che is sincere"
with this mans belief in anarchy,
and his penchant for associating with
the l. w. W., believe that the allega-
ton that he was a person likely to
! become a public charge is sustained,
/ for the reason that he is in jail now,
and will likely be in Jail frequently"
McDonald's eagerness to make q
case is shown in this paragraph from
his findings:
while the record in some places
looks like joint debate, this pro-
cedure was doubly important and
necessary in view of the failure of