Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-25
immigration Commissioner
Is Advised to Use Force
if 1t Is Necessary
Prisoners Exhibit
RebelliouS Mood
Identification of RadicNs
Is Big Problem in Lieu
of Acknowledgement
[RepubIIean A. p. Leased wirel


NEW YORK, Nov. 24--Fifty-
radicals went on strike against at
tending their deportation hearings at
Ellis Island today and forced the hear
ings to be suspended despite the pres
ence OF the house immigration COM
mittee which is investigating the de-
portation problem. They struck TO
have an iron barrier removed when
they have visitors.
The committee advised Commission
CT Byron Uhl to use force. if necessary,
to compel the next men scheduled for
hearing to attend, holding he had suf-
ficient authority under the law. The
commissioner sent to the detention
cage for Nicolai Kuropata, who was
arrested in a recent raid in Newark.
y. J. There was no response from the
cage and nobody on the island knew
which one of the men in the pen was
Kuropata. The redicals continued to
play hand ball and 'mandolins and a
few sang the "Internationale" while
the inspector in charge of the law di-
vision of the immigration service, Au-
gustus P. Shell. returned empty hand
ed to report to Mr.. Uhl and to the
committee.
Lawyers RoNlce OiSre9aroeo
Let's see who's running this island,
the defendants or the radicals" said
Representative Raker of California. a
member of the committee, and forth
with the sergeant at arms brought in
the counsel for the radicals, Isaak
Schorr, who emigrated from Russia in
1904 and was graduated from the New
York University law school in 1913
He was about TO leave the island for
the main land. At the committees re-
quest he told his clients the law re-
quired them TO attend their hearings
All but seven of the SO segregated rad
icals then reiterated their refusal tO
attend the hearings until the barrier
was removed. Mr.. Uhl informed Mr.
Schorr that the iron mesh would re-
main in place and announced that the
deportations hearings would be con-
tinued tomorrow. Just how he woulC
solve the puzzle of Identifying the rad
cals he did not announce. TheiI
counsel professed not TO know all oi
mis- clients by sight.
Word of the strike came to the COM
mittee, when Mr.. Uhl, questioned a:
to delays in deportations and in ap-
peals by debarred immigrants, wal
testifying as to inadequate personne
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following letter he had received jus
after the law officer had concluded
one deportation hearing:
The Committees Letter
"Mr. Uhl:
Dear Sir: In view of the fact tha
your promise and word which Isaal
Schorr, our attorney, brought over t
US as to the matter of visits to-wit
that no iron mesh or net or any othe
barrier would be placed between u
and our friends at the time OF thei
visits to the island has been broken b
some one. we believe by your sub
ordinates:
I'VE. the inmates of 20S, declar
that we demand that you give us
personal guarantee undersigned by yo
TO the effect that at no time, neithe
during the hearings nor afterward
until we are deported shall any barrier
be placed between US and our friend
at the time of their visit.
Expecting an immediate answer, "
shall remain from going out to heal
ings until said satisfactory and in
mediate answer shall reach us.
Respectfully,
COMMITTEE OF ROOM 2Os,
m. l. Sohemsky,
Peter Z. Biankey,
Arthur Ketzes."
Members of the committe said the
thought Biankey was the brains of Il
strike. He was arrested in Akro
Ohio, in 1917, released in $1,000 ba
and rearrested last month in Ne
York.
Mr.. Uhl testified that seldom,
ever, was an immigrant asked whetl
er he had anarchistic views.