The sun., 1919-10-28
GOLDMAN FIGHTS
# TO REMAIN IN US.
Protests Against Deportation
Hearing as "Star Chamber
Proceeding"
DEMANDS AN OPEN TRIAL
Results of Secret Inquiry on
Ellis Island will Go to
n Secretary Wilson.

Emma Goldman appeared before the
United States immigration authorities
yesterday morning with her counsel
Harry wein5erger. to answer the war
rant of arrest and inquiry as to why she
should not be deported as an anarchist
under the anti-anarchist law.
At the very outset of the hearing she
protested vigorously against what she
termed "star chamber proceedings.
whose very spirit is nothing less than
revival of the ancient days of the Span
i'm Inquisition or the more recently de-
funct third degree system of Czarist
Russia"
She declared the hearing was denial
Of the right of freedom of s2eech and
sf the press and of the, right CT every
offender against the law to have trial
IN open court. there TO be judged by a
jury OF his peers
But if,p said Goldman. II am not
charged with any specific offence or act
if-as l have reason to believe-this Is
purely an inquiry into my social and
political opinions. then 1 protest still
NiBOEOuslt dbdiist Niccu picSSNb
ings as utterly tyrannical and diamet-
rically opposed to the fundamental
guarantees of a true democracy"
The object of the anti-anarchistic law
and the star chamber proceedings" as
Goldman voiced them, were to suppress
every symptom OF popular discomfort
which manifested itself in the country.
She looked upon the purpose Of the law
and the hearing as the first step toward
the introduction into this country of the
old Russian custom of exile for new
ideas OF social and Industrial reconstruc-
ten.
Antf-Anarchist Law.
The anti-anarchist law" she said.
'confuses the most varied social philoso-
phtes and isms in order to cover with
the same blanket every element of social
protest. SO that under the guise of this
law striking workers may be corralled
wholesale and hurried out of the coun-
try to serve the interests o: our indus
trial kings"
Capitalists were the only ones aided
BY the anti-anarchist law. Goldman
said. and she objected to the conspiracy
OF imperialistl capitalism against the life
and liberty OF the American people.
1t became known yesterday that Gold
fuAn ~ utpcHulnk NOI nuSDdnu anu
4 naturalized father 20 save her from
She says she was married to Jacob
Kersner In Rochester in 1887. and that
he had been naturalized. She left him
thirty years ago. according to her story.
The proceedings now being conducted
by the Department of immigration on
Ellis Island are secret. The law en-
powers the Secretary of Labor to order
such an examination whenever he deems
that an alien Is residing unlawfully in
the United States. The findings of the
hearing will be forwarded to Secretary
Wilson, who may approve or reject them.
Reds Give Her q Dinner.
Two hundred radicals, Bolshevists and
other disciples of Berkman and Goldman
gave a dinner in their honor in the Hotel
Brevoort last night at which both of the
recently released prisoners and a dozen
others spoke. the speeches being curbed,
however because of the presence of De-
partment OF Justice officials.
Goldman and Berkman attacked prison
methods and the treatment they said
they had received, and the former, who
was grilled for flve hours at Ellis Island
yesterday. described hunger strike of
eight prisoners on the island, led by
Mollie Steiner, diminutive anarchist
who is also held on a deportation charge
Harry Weinberger, counsel for all three
was also a speaker at the dinner, de-
claring with other speakers that Russia
IL the real home OF democracy" He
somewhat paradoxically said that he
would fight the deportation proceedings
to the finish and that his clients would
ask nothing better than to be sent to the
free Russia"