Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-11-27
FORMER Officer
OF ISLAND Was
AID TO RADICALS
Frederick HOwe's Attitude to
Those Slated for Deportation
Was Sympathetic.
ASSISTED ONE MAN
TO DEFEAT COURTS
At Request of Emma Goldman, White
SLAYER Was Allowed to Go to
Spain-Hunger Strike
Continues.

! New York, Nov 26.-Letters show
ing sympathetic attitude on the
part of Frederic C. Howe, former
commissioner of immigration at Ell
lis Island, toward radicals who had
been ordered deported were read to-
day at an inquiry by the house i'm
migration committee. They were
produced after testimony by Byron
H. Uhl, now acting commission at
the island, that conditions under
Howe's regime tended to make the
island forum of bolshevism, a
bawdy house and a gambling house"
The correspondence. taken by the
committee from files at the island,
included letters written by Howe to
George Andrevtchfne, radical
whose deportation order was cancel
led; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and
Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of
labor; one received by him from EN-
ma Goldman and one from Dante
Barton, vice chairman of the COM
mittee on industrial relations, to
Miss Helen Marot, in care of "The
Masses" a radical New York publ
cation.
Miss Goldman urged Howe not to
send "to sure death" in France Joseph
Goldberg, white SLAYER and a friend
of defendants in Los Angeles dyna-
hitting cases. Official records read
by the committee showed Goldberg
had been allowed to go to Spain at
his own expense, after being ordered
deported.
Andreytchine, an l. w. w. rioter,
wrote Howe on cancellation of an
order of deportation.
II have no words to thank you for
your appreciation and support. Yours
as ever for the emancipation of
mankind"
In reply Howe wrote:
~ was immensely gratified to re-
ceive your letter advising me that
Acting Secretary Densmore had can
celled your order for deportation"
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn wrote
Howe in regard to Andreytchine:
81 count you among the first to
see that this young rebel is not sent
to certain DEATH"
Howe replied with formal review
of the case and added the postscript:
Hunger Strike Still On.
"This is a very official letter, I
know"
Howe wrote to Louis F. Post, as
sistant secretary of labor, in re gard
to the Andreytchine case:
"The Young man is a clean, whole
some, nice looking fellow and Mrs.
G 1oc 4o1o
times about him."
letter from Dante Barton to
Helen Marot in regard to Andreyt-
chine said:
II think we can feel pretty sure
that Fred Howe will continue his
parole + + That will give US
a longer time to make a stir with the
help of the whole radical bunch
+ + Dansmore's opinion that
he must be deported is a rotten lega-
listic, rat-eyed incarnation of at
torneyism. + + Possibly we
can scare Secretary Wilson,"
Mr.. Uhl testified that in depart
mental matters Howe had gone over
the head of his superior, Anthony
Caminetti. commissioner general of
immigration and dealt with officials
of the department of labor. Uhl now
deals with Caminetti, he testified,
Mr.. Caminetti was at the island to-
dav but did not attend the hearings.
While the committee was conduct
ing its inquiry into the former ad-
rninistration, hunger strike and
silence strike by more than three
score radicals at the island continued.
The committee announced that
some of the radical would be brought
before it for examination on Friday,
by force if necessary.
Three radicals we're so hungry to-
day that they answered the call to
the dining room. The others tonight
had had no food for 48 hours.
Commissioner Uhl planned to
break the silence strike by holding
deportation hearings before immi-
grafton INSPECTORS without the pres
ence of the radicals, after first
formally notifying them to appear,
but after the committee decided to
call the radicals to testify this strike
breaking plan was delayed.
WE TIYND