Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-29
DEPORTATION Of
REDS HAL TED BY
j. s. OFFICIAL
Former immigration Commits
sioner Ignored Orders of the
Department of Labor, Is
Testimony at Hearing.
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New York. Nov. 2S.-Testimony
missioner of immigration at Ellis Is
land. had ordered deportations of rad
icals held up, although final deporta-
tion orders had been received from
the department of labor was given to
the house immigration committee to-
day by Percy A. Baker. superintend-
ent of the island. Baker put in evil
dence an order he had received from
Howe last March, reading.
You will stay all deportations in
these alien cases until the attorneys
can be advised and until after con-
situations with me-"
Baker testified that an order of the
department to deport was final and
he therefore did not understand the
note from Howe and consulted him.
Baker then made this memorandum
on the copy OF the note shown the
committees:
Commissioner states If deportation
orders are received, before doing so
he should be consulted"
Howe's Action Illegal,
Representative Siegel of New York
said there was no authority in law for
such staying of deportations.
Baker said that some of the radi-
calls affected by the stay had been re-
leased by the department and some
had obtained their freedom BY habeas
corpus proceedings The effect of
Howes order to him, he said, prob
ably was to permit delay for the insti-
tuition of habeas corpus proceedings.
Representative Siegel read from i'm
migration department records names
Of two dozen men who had been held
at the island with warrants for their
deportation on file. but had been re-
leased mostly on their own recogni-
2ance. They are now missing.
Howe interrupted Bakers testimony
In an effort to give his version of the
matter, but was shut off by the COM
mittee, which promised him an oppor-
tunity to be heard later. Failing to
obtain permission to testify earlier in
the day, Howe had issued a statement
to the press, saying that he had never
released radical without orders from
Washington
Says UhPs Statement Is Untrue.
This statement was issued after
Howe had interrupted Byron H. Uhl,
now acting commissioner at the island
and deputy when Howe was commis-
sioner Uhi had testified that letter
signed by Howe, April "a, ordering
the circulation OF anarchistic litera-
ture at the island stopped, had not
been delivered 10 the proper officers
to enfore it until June 4
THAT isn't true" Howe exclaimed
before the committee stopped his
statement by informing him that it
would tolerate no police court
methods.
Later in the day Howe tried to in
terrupt the proceedings again to say
that he was in error in asserting that |
Uhl was not telling the truth. but the |
committee told him to write letter |
about it.
Dudley Field Malone, then collector
of the port Of New York, addresse |
interned German sailors at the island, |
Baker testified, and promised them |
that their treatment would be such |
that they would have no cause for |
complaint and that canteens would be |
provided. The canteens never were
provided. however, Baker added
To Break "Silence Strike
Nine husky deputy United States
were provided for Commits
sioner Uhl today so that he could |
break the silence" strike of sixty
eight radicals at the island now await
ing deportation proceedings. The |
usual guards at the island are made
quate and not strong enough, he told
the house committee. The deputies
will use force to bring the radicals
before immigration inspectors for de-
portation proceedings which they
have refused to attend because rela-
tives are not permitted to see them
except with an iron barrier interven-
ing.
The "silence strikers" have been on
hunger strike for removal OF the bar
rier for four days, having last an
swered the summons to the dining
room last Monday night. One hun
ger striker collapsed today and was
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