The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-28
SEEK FREEDOM FOR
Grill. W. W. CHIEFS
Lawyers Include Two Scotch
Lasses in List of % for
Whom They Get Writs.
ONE ALIEN IS DEPORTED
Detroit Socialist, Rejected at
Three, British Ports, Again
Is on the High Seas.

Two pretty Scotch girls leaders OF the
l. w. W. in Seattle, are scheduled to ap-
pear with a group OF alleged undesirable
aliens before Judge Learned Hand IN
the Federal District Court this morning.
writs Of haboas corpus for nineteen men
and three women OF the crowd that has
been accommodating at Ellis Island to
await deportation during labor troubles
IN the West were sued out yesterday by
Caroline A. Lowe of Chicago and Charles
Rccht OF this city. counsel for the j.
Wv
The girls are Margaret and Jean Roy.
They came to this country in 1911 from
Edinburgh. They were mill workers In
Lawrence UP to the strike In 1919. The
strike led them into the Socialist party.
From Lawrence they went to Chicago.
Jean became a stenographer
In Chicago the girls became members
OF the I. W. w, and were 80 active In
that organization that they were sent to
the Pacific coast as organizers. They
were arrested in Seattle Just before the
recent effort to start n revolutionary
strike. Jean was married TO a man
named Msckay.
Man and wife In Alien Party.
The other woman named in the writs
IS Mrs. Peter w. inertia. Her husband
IL oil the list. The Mertas were mem
bers OF the first party OF aliens TO be
brought across the continent for de-
portation. The others whose freedom
Is sought in this proceeding were mem-
bers OF that party, which numbered
forty-nlne. Fourteen have been dis
charged since their arrival here.
Angelo Cu-richio. one Of those named
IN the writs and a member of the origi-
nal party from the West. was deported
yesterday. He was sent on the steamer
Europa to Italy. The I. w. w. lawyers
attempted to stop his deportation by
telephoning TO Frederick C. Howe. Com
missioner Of immigration, at Washing
ton, but were unsuccessful.
Mr.. Recht said that an investigation
had been begun of the case Of Moses
Barritz, a former Socialist leader in
Detroit Barritz was ordered deported
eighteen months ago. He agreed to go
to New Zealand, where he once lived
He was placed aboard ship at San Fran
cisco. In Australia he was refused ad-
mission into British dominions- He
was sent back to Vancouver and from
there to Manchester. England. He was
refused permission to land at those ports
and Is now on the high seas.
Alleges Inspector Il BASED.
In the petition for the wriIs. II was al
legged that the prisoners did not receive
az impartial hearing. AS an evidence
e. re prejudice alleged to have infiu-
tnced the authorities. a paragraph from
the report OF Thomas II. Fisher, an eX-
aiming inspector of the immigration De-
partment il quoted. Inspector Fisher
b alleged 10 have described the l. W. w.
as follows:
1.-THE majority OF the members OF the
l. W. w. organization Is composed OF
what IS commonly known as yeggs and
tramps. men who have no fixed place OF
residence and who travel from place TO
place as the spirit or the police move
them. usually beating their way on
freight trains. They work for few
weeks in one place and then move on to
another. They lie idle as long as they
get sufficient to eat without working All
Of their belongings in the world are usu-
ally carried on their backs.
They are entirely out OF touch with
all their relatives and in q majority of
cases have no family Of any kind that
they know OF.
"They are the scum OF the earth. a
class that is detrimental to any and
very country, a landiess and lawless
mob, who. having no property Of their
own, recognize no rights of property. no
law and no authority save the police
mans club or physical violence.
This is the class of men the organi-
xation Is composed of and it is contended
that II they are aliens and assisting thif
organization in spreading Its propaganda
they come clearly under the provisions
Of this act and this charge"