New Britain herald., 1919-12-22
Police Fight Radicals Led by
 Russian Woman RIOT CALL IS SOUNDED
Many in Mob Had Relatives Deported Yesterday On the Soviet Ark Rotten Government"

New OGK, Lee. 2Z.-LCd by a woman who declared her husband had been deported to Russia yester- day on the Soviet ark" Buford, a mob Of 15O "Reds' today attacked the entrance on the Ellis Island ferry in an effort to reach fellow radicals still awaiting deportation. A riot call was turned in before the police could restore order.
 The mob formed around the gate keepers cage several minutes before the attack was launched. then the woman proclaiming herself an anar- chist stepped forward and drove both fists through the glass window.
 As pieces of glass crashed to the pavement the crowd began chanting the ''internationale."
 Down with this dirty rotten govern ment,' screamed the woman. "They have taken my husband and are talk ing the husbands, brothers and fath- CTS of us all.''
 Unable to quiet the mob Asa Mitchell, superintendent of the barge office, located at the tip of Manhat- tan, turned in a call for police re- serves.
 Beat Policemen.
 The mob turned on the first po- liceman to answer the call and beat him, but when more reserves with drawn clubs, and @ detail of coast guards with fixed bayonets arrived, the crowd suddenly became docile Members of it explained they had come to inquire about relatives who had sailed on the Buford.
 A young Russian woman who gave the name of Clara Brooks was ar rested as the rinSleader.
 She later was arraigned on a charge of disorderly conduct, found guilty and committed to the Tom'bs for is hours pending an investigation by a probation officer. She gave her age as 24 years and told the magis- trate that she had gone to the Ellis Island ferry in an effort to see her husband on the island but that they would not let me go." As she said this she began to weep and dozen other women who had accompanied her to court also wept.
 Twenty-two Remain.
 Twenty-two anarchists remained at Ellis Island today awaiting .deporta- tion. They will be sent to Russia with others from Detroit and Chicago whom the department of labor was unable to have transported to New York in time to sail on tho Buford Arrangements for the departure of the next Soviet ark" have not been completed, according to Byron Fl. Uh], acting missioner at the island.
 A, few married anarchists are held in various cities awaiting decision of the authorities aS to whether to send their families with them. No anar- chist of whose marriage was official record was sent on the Buford but eight of them had requested that their sweethearts be sent on the ship also
 TO Use Discretion.
 Sailing orders now in the hands of the master of the Soviet arl1'' Bu- ford, delivered to him A hours from this port will permit him to use his discretion as to what one of several Russian or Finnish ports his consign- nent of deported Reds may be land ed at it was reported here today. The hexibility of these orders it was said, was provided so the captain may be abln to meet unforeseen conditions of ice ana bad weather or possible re- fusal of officials at any one port to permit Emma Goldman. Alexander Berkman and the others to land. The supplies on the Buford are sufficient for 6c to 90 days and regardless of the time it takes the passengers will be landed.
 It also is believed in navy circles here that an escort of one or moro destroyers now in North sea waters will be provided for the Buford as s.I,