Arizona republican., 1919-02-11
COMMENCE TO DEPORT
 MOBILES
Trainload from Seattle On Way to New York to Sail for Native Lands-Others to Follow

desirable aliens will leave Chicago in d few days for an Atlantic port, to be shipped back to the countries whence they came, Immigration officials made this known tonight as the 54 aliens hurried through Chicago Sunday, en route back to Europe under heavy guard, were nearing New York. Forty one of the first trainload were from Seattle and five weref rom Chicago, the others having been picked up in other cities
 CHICAGO, Feb. 10. = Fifty-four through Chicago last night in a special train under a heavy guard on the way way to an Atlantic port. where. it is said, they will be deported at once by the immigration authorities.
 Forty of the prisoners came direct from Seattle, where they took part in fomenting the general strike which has paralyZed the industries of that city for several days.
 Three leaders of the Seattle strike, one Spokane agitator, an I. w. w. lead CT from Denver and five alien con victs arrested in Chicago were among he prisoners gathered itno the fed eral net.
 The majority of the men were alien labor agitators picked up by officers of the United States immigration ser vice during year of secret campaign ing in industrial centers of the Pacific coast. A. D. D. Jackson, chief of the Seattle office of the immigration ser | vice, was in charge of the party.
 Proceedings Simple
 "The proceeding against enemies of this type is simple" an official with the train said. Just two hours before the Seattle strike was called we gath cred 40 agitators into the cars with everything cleared away between them and the middle of the Atlantic ocean. For more than a year the immigration service has been working quietly in all industrial centers, checking up on the strange aliens who have appeared and gathered evidence against l. W w leaders and trouble makers who call themselves bolsheviki
 When evidence was compiled against this particular crowd. each case was brought to a federal hearing and all court findings sent to Wash ington, where they were reviewed by | Secretary of Labor Wilson. The sec retary has the power to order this type of prisoner deported or released. and so far thero has been little trouble in get ting quick action"
 The majority of the prisoners will be sent back to Russian provinces. They are principally Norwegians, Swedes and Films, according to guards on the train.
 The only attempt at a mob delivery of the prisoners was frustrated by the foresight of the federal officials Be- fore the train reached Butte, Mont, of ficers were warned that the l. w. W. leaders in that city and Helena had learned of the deportation and were massing to deliver their comrades. The two cars then attached to a regular train were cut off at a junction and set into another train, which made a wide detour, missing both Butte and Helena.
 Delivery Failed
 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 ] search the train and when they found the prisoners were not on board left , without any trouble.
 Only one of the prisoners made SC. rious objection when told of the E-. , tention of the government to deport him. He swore out a writ of habeas
 corpus against deportation which wa,
 quashed by federal court at Spokane
 One woman, the wife of Finnish agi- 7 tator<arrested in Spokane, was in tn,
 party.
 The five prisoners taken into tn, party here are alien convicts who wer, i sentenced to deportation some tim, ago.