New-York tribune., 1919-12-22
Federal Campaign to De-
port Alien Radicals I'm
der Way in Earnest;
Tragedy in Parting
Red Emma ,almest
OF Departing Foes
We're Coming Back and
Well Get You When We
Do Berkman Farewell

Two hundred and forty-nine alien
anarchists-among them Alexande,
Berkman, Emma Goldman, Dora
Lipkin and Ethel Bernstein, the
last three being the only women in
the crowd-were deported from the
United States on the army transport
Buford early yesterday morning.
1t was the first step in the general
deportation campaign of the United
States government against alien
revolutionists who preach the over
throw of the government by force
and violence.
1t was also the first time in the
history of the country that such de-
portation, carried out on wholesale
plan and with the cooperation of the
Department of Labor, the Depart
ment of Justice and the War De-
partment, took place. 1t was an in
cident as dramatic as it was great in
political significance.
The Buford Sails Away
After preparations which lasted
all night, involving the transfer of
the deportees in an army tender
from Ellis Island to the Buford,
{. 5,000-ton vessel, moored in Grave
send Bay, passed out to sea at 6:13
o'clock, just as the first rays of the
sun illumined the murky gray of the
harbor with bright red and per-
mitted the deportees one last look at
the shores from which they were be-
ing elected as enemies of the United
States. Their last message, shouted
by trumpet -throated Russian from
the deck of the transport, was,
Long live the revolution in Amer
ica!"
The Buford is bound for Soviet Rus
sia, although the exact destination of
the vessel will not be known to the
captain until he opens his sealed or
ders when the transport is twenty-four
platoon of soldiers went with the
TRANSPORT
According to officials, the Buford's
captain must land his passengers some
where in or near Soviet Russia, but
whether or not the vessel may go di-
rect to Soviet Russia (in which case
she would be bound for the port of
Kronstadt) depends on the cantain's
orders
May Land in Finland
1t is understood that should the
Buford be unable to land at Kron-
stadt she may land at a Finnish port
-Hange, Abo or Helsingfors-wh whence
the d.portees would be transferred by
rail to Bielo- Ostroff. on the Russo
Finnish frontier. and there handed over
to the Bolshevist frontier guard. The
deportces also may reach Russia
through the Baltic provinces after
landing at Riga or Libau
uperintending the final deportation
ceremonies were Commissioner of I'M
Anthony j. Caminetti,
William J. Flynn, head of the United
States Secret Service; George F. Lamb.
head of the Department Of Justice in
thus city, and Representatives Albert
JohnsoH, Isaac Siegel and John Vail.
VINO have been conducting the inves-
tigation of conditions at Ellis Island.
Bryon II. Uhl, Acting Commissioner
Of immigration at the Port of New
ork, assisted in the final prepara-
tlons
We're coming back, and we will get
you when we do come" were the last
words of Alexander Berkman, hurled at
Chief Flynn and his agents as he
boarded the small army transport boat
that took the deportees to the Buford.
''Goodby, America"
phrase uttered in a whisper by Ethel
Bernstein
Emma Goldman's parting shot was:
deportation IS the beginning of the
end of. the United States government.
The government has signed its own
death warrant"
Miss Goldman, like Berkman. was
confident OF returning 10 the United
States at some future date 20 take
part IN the American revolution"
Altogether 1t was calm, yet mani
testify defiant lot Of men and women
who were exiled from the United
States as enemies. With only two or
three exceptions, they showed evi-
dences of stoicism under the ordeal to
which they were compelled to submit
IN the dead of night. Two of them
were observed to be weeping as they
boarded the small army tender that
took them t. Gravesend Bay for their
'ast Journey down New York Harbor,
away from the land into which thev
came seeking freedom and
safety from the blood stained autoc-
racy of the Cars
Back to Free Russia"
We're going back 10 free Russ;,
shouted many of them on their fatefn,
tourney down the bay. A chorus Of
leerS was the replv To this evcfar..: