New-York tribune., 1919-02-11
Ellis Island Stop-Ouer
For 66 Undesirable
Aliens From the " est

Carpenters ana scrub women on Ellis
Island wore engaged yesterday in pre-
pairing the detention penn there for the
arrival from the West of fifty-four
alien I. ". W agitators and twelve
convicts. Who are to be deported from
the United States as undesirables. The
special train on which the prisoners
and their heavily armed guards are
travelling toward New York is sched-
uled to arrive at Hoboken at o'clock
This morning.
Forty of the prisoners began what
the government intends to be their last
American ranscontlnental trip at Seat
tie. Three cf them were leaders Of
the agitation that resulted in the gen.
eral strike IN Seattle. Their eastward
trip began the day the strike was called.
Federal immigration Commissioner
Henry M White, of Seattle, said that
fact was purely coincidence.
At Chicago five alien convicts were
put aboard the train Under a con-
gressional act of 1917, every alien con-
victed Of { crime for which a penalty
Of more than year in prison can be
inflicted, must be depor.ed.
Others Are Coming
According to H. R. Lands, inspector
N charge Of immigration affairs at
Chicago, who contributed these five to
the eastbO1nd party, this train is the
i'rst OF many that will carry undesir-
abies from the interior to New York
for deportation.
A; Il, D. Jackson, of the Seattle office
OF the immigration service, is in charge
OF the train. In addition to their rifles
ana automatic pistols, the guards have
handeufs for each of the prisoners,
including the wife of one of the Firms,
who is to be banished.
lne majority Of the prisoners are
russians. Their case presents the big
eest problem TO the immigration au-
tnoritles, for the law provides that un-
desirable aliens can be deported only
70 70 The land from which they came
mere are ne ships sailing to Russia
At Chicago an official Of the immi-
train said:
Inc proceeding against this type
II enemy % the nation IS simple. Just
% .%"o hours before the Seattle strike was
taiied we gathered forty agitators into
me cars ready to start east.
for more tn1n a year the immigra-
non service has been working quietly
al industrial centres. checking up
oh the strange aliens who have ap-
Yea1eo, and gathering evidence against
~ " leaders and uble-rnakers.
"n4 a9,.c cal themselves Bolsheviki.
~; neh evidence was compiled against
my particular crowd each case was
Saough, 70 a Federal hearing and all
.Juit ~ hhalngs sent to Washington,
"hsre tney we're reviewed by Secretary
of Labor Wilson. The Secretary has
sae power 70 order this type of pris-
0ngr deported OF released"
Inc officials in charge of the train
& sie eongfatDlating themselves on out
uu,ss'hg Nm "a a mob that gathered at Butte,
IoA.' no guards were warned when
1rs ran approached Butte that I. w.
~ 'sadef5 in that city and in Helena
~ ~ masHlng 70 deliver their COM
saaes' Inc two cars containing the
,r.isVNcIa' tner attached TO scheduled
' at were cut of and hooked onto a
~ '"t engine. which made wide de-
"'' aFoicing both Butte and Helena.
Commissioner Gets Order
acting Commiss sioner Of Immigration
9sson Jhl at Ellis Island said last
1asne mat Commissioner General Cam
sS'hetI had teicgraphed him to have
SalKes at Hobokcn tomorrow to take
@sss-six persons TO Ellis Island. lie
90 n.t some Of the party were anarchists.
iDshef aliens arc being held at Ellis
w1a.IS ssaagd Tor deportation, but Mr.. Uhl
fen f~o hoE discuss their presence. A
gay ago twenty foreigners,
sssr,se'paily radicals Of the extreme Red
sVs, were arrested in different cities
ss..s tae East and sent 10 Boston to
'ai' deportation from that port.