The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-02-10
BOLSHEvIK ARE
DEPORTED FROM
UNITED STATES
Fifty-four Dangerous Aliens
Escorted to Atlantic Port
From West Under Guard.
(By Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Feb. 1O.-Fifty-four mem
bers of the Industrial Workers of the
World passed through Chicago last
night in a special train under a heavy
guard on the way to an Atlantic port,
where it is said they will be deported
at once by the immigration authori-
ties. Forty of the prisoners came
direct from Seattle where it is al
legged they took part in fomenting the
general strike which has paralyzed
the Industries OF that city for several
days.
Three leaders OF the Seattle strike.
one Spokane agitator, an I. w. w.
leader from Denver, and five alien
convicts arrested in Chicago, were
among the prisoners gathered into the
federal net.
Alien Labor Aaitators.
The majority of the men were alien
labor agitators picked up by officers
of the United States immigration serv-
ice during the year of secret cam
paigning in industrial centers of the
Pacific coast. A. d. H. Jackson, chief
of the Seattle office of the immigra-
tion service was in charge of the
party.
"The proceeding against United
States enemies of this type is simple" !"
an official with the train said. "Just
two hours before the Seattle strike
was called we gathered forty agitators
into the cars with everything cleared
away between them and the middle of
the Atlantic ocean. For more than a
year the immigration service has been
working quietly in all industrial CEN
ters, checking up on the strange aliens
who have appeared and gathered evil
dence against l. w. w. leaders and
trouble makers who call themselves
Bolsheviki.
'When evidence was compiled
against this particular crowd each
case was brought to a federal hearing
and all court findings sent to Wash
ington where they were reviewed by
Secretary of Labor Wilson. The Sec
retary has the power to order this
type of prisoner deported or released,
and so far there has been little trouble
in getting quick action
From Russian Provinces.
The majority of the men will be
sent back to Russian provinces. They
are principally Norwegians, Swedes,
and Firms, according to the guards on
the train. The only attempt at
mob delivery of the prisoners was
frustrated by the foresight of the fed
eral officials. Before the train reach
ed Butte, Mon. officers were warned
that the I. w. w. leaders in that city
and Helena had learned of the depor-
tating and were massing to deliver
their comrades. The two cars then at
tached to a regular train, were cut off
at a junction and set into another
train, which made wide detour, MISS
ing both Butte and Helena.
Several hundred men gathered at
the railroad station in Butte when the
original train reached that point, ac-
cording to reports which reached the
officials. They were allowed to search
the train and when they found the
prisoners were not on board, left with
out making trouble.
Only one of the prisoners made SER
ious objection when told of the inten-
ton of the government to deport him.
He swore out a writ of habeas corpus
against deportation, which was quash-
ed by federal court at Spokane. One
woman. the wife of Finnish agitator,
arrested in Spokane, was in the party:
The five prisoners taken into the
party here are alien convicts who
were sentenced to deportation some
time ago.