Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-27
FORMER COMMISSIONER
WAS FRIENDLY TO REDS
Letters Read Describing Frederic G.
Iiowc's Itcgimc as Ellis
island Chief.
NEW OFFICIAL ON STAND
Acting Commissioner Tells Inycsti-
eating Committee Island Wa,
Forum OF lSolslIcvism, Baw,iy
House and Gambling Place.
icy 4. snriatcd rrcss-i

NEW YORK. Nov Letters .hoY.
ing a sympathetic attitude on the par;
OF Frederic g. Howe. formerly com
missioner Of immigration at ELLIS Is
land. toward radicals who had bccn
ordered dcportcd wore read today u;
IN inquiry by the House Immigration
Committee.
!, Thcy wcre produced after testimony
ny ny myron !! IN, now as,ins commis-
under Howc'S regime tended 10 max"
The island forum Of ;olshcvism.
bawdy- house and gambling house.
committee from flies at tho island. in
t G"mga ,s,iGrs wr,isn By liowe I"
deportation order was cancelled; Eliza
S Hs. GurlcE Flynn and Louis T.. Post.
c ,SSisI'n IT.. sESfGret2ry OF Labor one re
md ono from Dante Barton, vice
~. ifinam OF the committee on indus
H !, relations. - Miss Helen Marot.
York publication
Mercy for White SLAYER.
M,SS Goldman urged Howe not 10
SenI I" sure death in France. Joscph
n"!n hocr White SLAYER ana q friend
%, GG:e esses o II Las Ansses hyns
inc conniitoc showed Goldberg had
bccn allowed 20 70 20 SPAN at his own
N T'S hfn 'N! nm 9FdSred aonGr,cd
wrote liowc upon cancellation oc an
order. OF deportation:
nav" no words 10 thank YOU for
your appreciation and support Yours
as Ger for the emancipation Of man
IN reply Howe wrote:
II Vas immensely srat!ncd 20 re-
c"ivc your letter advising mo that Act
in= secretary. pcnsmorc had Cancelled
your order o. dcportaton.
Counted on Commissioner.
hliHaheth Guricy Flynn wrote Howe
ia regard 20 hndrcytchine.
90! count YOU among tho frs; 10 erc
MAJ this younS rcbe! is not sen, to
certain death.
ot the case and added the postscript:
This Is very Official letter, !
Iiowc wrote 10 Louis l.. Post. Assist.
ant secretary % Labor In regard to
the Andrcy;chinc case:
Inc y"uns man IL q clean. ,whoi>-
! : cam has irirphoned me several
times abou; him"
\, le'' T.. from nants Esr,on to ,lio!en
,r.' FRA iiowe% viii e5 HiiHiH SF his
h i@,.a, ,,,. - To- VII s:yr n. =
help OF tho whole radical bunch
IJHasmoic's opinion that he mus; hc
cycd rcincarua,!on OF at;orncyism.
Possibly VIC can scare score
Wen, over Superior. Icnd.
mental matters Howe hnd conc over
IN" ned OF his snprrior. ANTHONY
7. ~
lmm grafton and death Win officials
OF tic Department OF La Dor. Uni now
deals with Caminctt. he testified. Nj.
caninetii MAS ~ The Island to-day, but
d!d not attend The hearings.
While tho committee was conducting
rs inquiry into the former admins.
strike by more than three score rsdi-
cais AT the island continued. The com
radicals would be broush, before il
for examination Friday. By force II
necessary.
Three radicals were so hungry ;odsy
tina: they answered tho call TO the
dining room; The others ;onieh; had
had no food for forty &c ut hougs
VIII Hrcnk silence strike.
Commissioner Chi planned 10 b:c. :.
the silence strike by holding Gepo-ta-
ZION hearinss before imGm!sgat!op inn.
radicals AFTER hrs; formally NOTIFYING
,hom 10 appear. but after the commit.
IT," 90. dge.ara 70 ca, M raaisa's to ies
, laEed ny tho hunger and silence
strikes the radicals seek TO have re
moved an iron barrier separating them
In touring the island the committee
discovered what IT regarded as Cyl
denGe 81 easy opportunity FOR undo
dian farmer. and MS wife on Their
Ny from Ensanhi iSf' i i,So Aari III
dranrc, although their passports had
not been properly vIsed.
FEARING there would he some DIM
Guilty about entering Canada. they &c :
turned 10 The island voluntarily and
w,rc held until the Department Of
Labor waived the passport require
mcnt aud ordered their release.
Berknian's Application DeHtcd.
After REPRESENTATIVE Johnson had
announced today he had learned from
the Bureau OF Immigration that the
Department OF Labor had denied an
plication OF Alexander Bc-kman for
PERMISSION 10 90 10 Mexico instead OF
being dcportcd TO Russia. Henry Vein
berger counsel for Bcrkman and
| Emma Goldman stated he had re-
ccivcd assurances from the Department
that neither Berkman nor any other
Russians would be 3eported 10 the
! White Guards OF Russia.
weinbcrGcr said Miss Goidman's
case also has been closed, adding that
he had refused to file brief In her
behalf as he had no; been granted
sufficient time TO prove her America
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