Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-02-10
v. v.
WILL Be DEP0RTED
Forty on Special Train on
Way to Atlantic Port Are
From Seattle.
MELTED IN YEARS WORK
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 10.-Fifty-fo
, members of the Industrial Workers of
the World passed through Chicago
| last night in a special train. under a
heavy guard, on the way to an Allan
tic port. where, 1t is said. they will be
deported at once by the immigration
| authorities.
| Forty of the prisoners came direct
from Seattle, where. 1t is alleged. they
took part in fomenting the general
strike which has paralyzed the in
| dustries of that city for several days.
Three leaders of the Seattle strike.
one Spokane agitator, an l. w. w.
| leader from Denver and five alien
convicts arrested In Chicago were
among the prisoners gathered into
the federal net.
Majority Are Labor Agitators.
The majority of the men were alien
| labor agitators picked up by officers
of the United States Immigration
| service during year OF secret cam
paigning in Industrial centers of the
| Pacific coast. A. D. H. jackson, chief
| of the Seattle Office of the immigfa-
tion service, was in charge of the
party.
The proceeding against United
an officiai with 4 the e train said. Just
| two hours before the Seattle strike
| was called we gather d forty agita-
| tors into the cars. with everything
cleared away between them and the
middle of the Atlantic ocean. For
more than year the immigration
service has been working quietly In
all industrial centers, checking up on
the strange aliens who have appeared,
and gathering evidence against l. w.
w. leaders and trouble makers who
call themselves bolsheviki. When evil
dence was compiled against this par
ticuiar crowd each case was brought
TO a federal hearing and all court
hndings sent to Washington. where
Labor Wilson. The Secretary has the
power to order this type of prisoner
deported or released. and SO tar there
has been little trouble In getting
quick action"
The majority of the prisoners will
be sent back to Russian provinces.
They are principally Norwegians.
Swedes and Firms. according to
guards on the train.
Fool Their Friends In Butte.
The only attempt at a mob delivery
OF the prisoners was frustrated by
the foresight of the federal officials.
Before the train reached Butte. Mont,
officers were warned that the I. w. w,
leaders in that city and Helena had
learned of the deportation and were
massing to deliver their comrades.
The two oars, then attached to q regn.
lar train, were cut or ut q junction
and set into another train. which
made wide detour. missing both
Butte and Helena.
Several hundred men gathered at
the railroad station In Butte when the
original train reached that point, ac-
cording to reports which reached the
officials. They were allowed TO cearch
The train and when they found the
prisoners were not on board left
W fthout making trouble.
Only one Of the prisoners made seri.
Gus objection when told OF the in
tention OF the governments to deport
him. He swore out q writ OF habeas
corpus against deportation. which was
quashsd by federal court at Spo-
kane. One woman. the wife OF a
Finnish agitator arrested In Spokane.
WAS in the party.
| The hve prisoners taken into the
party hero are alien convicts who
were sentenced to deportation some
time ago.