New-York tribune., 1919-12-05
Anarchists Likely To Be
Put on Ship Bound
for Russia as They Start
for Ellis Island To-day
Seek Habeas Corpus Writ
Cooks Teaching Anarchy
Found i'm Harlem Public
Library, Says Siegel

The little tug which plies between
he Battery and Ellis Island will leave
IS wharf at the foot of Broadway
'romptly at II o'clock this morning,
FRYING Emma Goldman and Alexander
erkman, anarchists, on the first lap of
heir long journey to Russia. Accord
ag to Federal officials, it will be the
st time Miss Goldman and Berkman
'ill set foot on the mainland of the
'nited States, where for years they
ave preached anarchist propaganda.
limitations that surprise is in
tore for the anarchists when they ar
i've at the island were made yesterday
" Byron II. Uhl, Acting Commissioner
immigration.
II understand the government has
omething up its sleeve, but l don't
now just what it is" he said. Other
ificials declared they believed the
rider deporting Miss Goldman and
3erkman calls for their immediate
transfer to ship bound for Russia.
Destination in Question
Differences of opinion have arisen
between Mr.. Uhl and Harry Weinber-
ger, counsellor ths anarchists. relative
to what part Of Russia the two aliens
IRE to be sent. Mr.. Weinberger dis
losed a telegram from Anthony Can't
netti, Commissioner Of immigration,
stating that Miss Goldman and Berk-
man would be lent to Soviat Russia.
II have been promised b. more than
one government official that they will,
be delivered to Bolshevik officials, s."
said Mr.. Weinberser. "It would mean
their murder to deliver them into the
hands of anti-Bolshevik forces"
Mr. Uhl contended the anarchists
cannot be sent to Soviet Russia be-
,ause this government has not recog-
oized the Soviet government "Thc law
provides for deportation to the coun-
tries from whence the aliens came" he
said. They can be- deported regard
'ess of changes of government"
Mr. Wenberger said he still had
hopes of obtaining writs Of habeas
corpus, which would act as stay
against the deportation. He said he
would contend that Miss Goldman is ar
American citizen through marriage.
Berkman's defense is he has ceased to
be an anarchist.
Anarchistic Teachings Found in Library
Representative Isaac Siegel, after II
trip to Ellis Island yesterda declared
he had discovered how anarchists are
made. Mr.. Siege is member of the
pointed to investigate conditions at the
Island.
Books in our public libraries help
to make anarchists" he said. 81 found
a boy on the Island-Thomas Buhoka-
mob, seventeen years old, a native Of
Russ a, who came here seven years
ego. He was educated in Pubic School
38. He read anarchist books out of
the Harlem Public Library. Then he
helped circulate Emma Goldman's S
Mother Earth After that he went to
SLAMS who could not speak English and
taught them what he had learned
about anarchy.
"He told me he did not believe in
the Constitution, in any form of gov
ernment or in God"
Mr.. Siegel said the committee would
meet in Washington on Monday, when
it will question Secretary of Labor
Wilson, Louis F. Post, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Department of Labor, and
other officials.
Mislig Defies Committee
The Lusk Legislative Committee de-
voted its session yesterday to obtain
ing the political views of DR.. Michael
Mislig, formerly treasurer of the Rus
sian Socialist Federation. He declined
to tell the committee the names of the
federation's executive committee, al
though Assemblyman Louis Martin
warned him he would be in contempt
Ernest Albert Kurth, who was in
dcted on charge of assault with in
tent to kill for having sent bomb
concealed in a tin candy box to Mrs
Rodman Wanamaker, pleaded guilty
yesterday before Judge William II.
Wadhams in General Sessions. He will
be sentenced December IL.
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