Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-22

Attack Ferry Entrance, Seek
ing Friends''on Ellis Island
Awaiting Deportation.

NEW YORK, December 22-Led by
a woman who declared her husband
had been deported to Russia yestsr-
day on the soviet ark" Buford. a
mob of /15O reds today attacked
in an effort to reach fellow radicals
still awaiting deportation. riot
call was turned in before the police
could restore order.
The mob formed around the gate
keepers cage several minutes before
the attack was launched Then the
woman, proclaiming herself an an
2fchist, stepped forward and drove
Goth fists through the glass window.
Z AS pieces of glass crashed to the
pavement the crowd began chanting
sthe t.anternationale." H.
sly R4lnfises Were Taken.
Down with this dirty, rotten gov
ernment," screamed the woman. Ihey
have taken my husband and are
taking the husbands orotners anu
fathers of us all.
Unable to quiet the mob, Asa
Mitchell. superintendent of the barge
Office, located at the tip of Manhat-
tan. turned in a call for police re-
serves.
The mob turned on the first police
man to answer the call and beat him,
but when more reserves with drawn
clubs and a detail of coast guards
with fixed bayonets arrived the crowd
suddenly became docile. Members or
it explained they had come to inquire
about relatives who had sailed on the
Buford.
Woman Arrested.
A young Russian woman. who gave
the name of Clara Brooks, was ar
rested as the ringleader.
Later she was arraigned on a
charge of disorderly conduct. found
guilty and committed to the Tombs
for forty-eight hours pending an in
vestigation by a probation officer.
years and told the magistrate that
She had gone to the Ellis Island ferry
in an effort to see her husband on the
island, but that they would not let
me GO" AS she said this she be gan
to weep and dozen other women
who had accompanied her to court
also wept.
- Anarchists Still on Island.
Twenty-Five anarchists remained at
Ellis Island today awaiting deporta-
ton They will be sent to Russia
with others from Detroit and Chicago
whom the Department of Labor was
unable to have transported to New
York in time to sail on the Buford:
Arrangements for the departure of
the next soviet ark" have not been
completed according to Byron H. Uhl,
acting commissioner at the island.
A few married anarchists are held
in various cities awaiting the decision
of the authorities as to whether to
send their families with them. No
anarchist of whose marriage there
was official record was sent on the
Ruford. but eight of them had re-
uuested that their sweethearts be sent
on the ship also.
Orders as to Ships Landing.
Sailing orders now in the hands of
the master of the soviet ark" de-
liyered to him to be opened twentyfour
hours from this port, will permit him
to use his discretion as to at what
one of several Russian or Finnish
ports his consignment of deported
reds may be landed. it was reported
here today. The heXibility of these
orders. it was said. was provided SO
that the captain may be able to meet
unforeseen difficulties of ice and bad
weather, possible refusal of offic;alii
at any one port to permit Emma Gold
man, Alexander Berkman and the 9TH
ers to land The supplies on the Blu
ford are sufficient for sixty to ninety
days and regardless of the time it
takes, the passengers will be landed
somewhere.
Naval officers said today that it will
be at least three and possibly four
weeks before landing can be eff
fected.