The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-12-22
249 RADICALS
ON THEIR WAY
Emma Goldman and Alex
ander Berkman Are In
Guided in the List
MORE DEPORTEES
SAID TO BE LISTED
But the Crowd Just Sent
Away Represent the
brains" Of the Reds

New York, Dec. D. The Soviet
Ark" Buford, which sailed for a Rus
sian port with 249 radical deportees on
board will be followed before she has
an opportunity to land by second
lark" load of reds, according to the best
information obtainable to-day.
1t was stated that the second batch
Of deportees probably would be en-
barked some time this week. The de-
partment of justice has $4,000 radicals
listed How many of these will follow
their red leaders on enforced voyages
TO their homeands has not been made
known.
The Buford, which crept out of New
York harbor with heavy guard in the
darkness yesterday morning, carried
Alexander Berkman and Emma Gold
man, two of the most notorious an
archist leaders the United States ever
has harbored, together with PAT other
radicals of various degrees of ''redness. >
Department of justice agents said the
Buford's passenger list comprised vir-
tually the brains" of the radical move.
ment in the United States.
Emma Goldman is 40 years old and
Berkman 90 She was born in Kovno,
Russia, and in early childhood removed
with her parents to East Prussia. When
Is years old she came to the United
States and started working in clothing
factories in Rochester, N. Y.
Recently asked who her relatives
were, Miss Goldman replied; 81 have
children all over the United States"
In 1887, when II years old, she was
married in Rochester to Jacob A. kers
ner, who came from Russia in 1882 and
was natmalized two years later. In
1909 his citizenship was revoked be-
cause he was not 2 when naturalized
and had not been five years in the Unit
ed States. The marriage ceremony was
performed by a schochet Ia slayer of
animals for kosher meat. Two years
later the Kersners were divorced by a
rabbi according to the Jewish rite.
kersuer seems then to have passed out
of Miss Goldman's life entirely, for an
nouncement in court during her final
fight against deportation that he had
died this year took her by su rise. It
was on a claim that marriage to him
made her citizen that her legal efforts
TO remain in this country were based
'They can't keep me out, she said in
1907 when there was talk Of deporting
her. Il don't believe they would be
foolish enough to try, My father is an
American citizen. married an Amer
lean citizen
Her father came to the United States
in 1886, one year after her arrival, and
was naturalized at Rochester when his
daughter was "a wears old.
Her association with Berkman began
30 years ago in New York Other than
that he is 30 years old and came from
Russia he seems to have concealed
his prior history pretty well When he
was released from the western. Pennsyl-
vania prison after serving his time for
shooting Mr.. Frick there were reports
that he had married Miss Goldman in
New Jersey, but the marriage was nev,
er recorded and at their trial for OBJ
STRUGGLING the draft both testified they
were single.
Il represent the devil" said Miss
NroluilldH at but W uti meetings 3
am an apostle upholding glorious free,
dom, the apostle standing out against
law and order and decency and moral
ity | am for the devil who leads the
way to the absolute yielding up to all
the emotions here and now. Women
are slaves of little laws and eonven-
tions. They'll learn to break the laws
some day"
Berkman and Miss Goldman made
their headquarters in New York, where
their magazines were published, but
they were well known in every large
city in the United States and also adj,
dressed anarchist meetings in Canada,
England, Australia, Holland and other
countries.
These meetings enabled them to live
as comfortably as any desped cap
italist would wish. Admission fees
were charged, circulars sold and sub
serptions to their magazines taken At
The last meeting they addressed in Chi
eago prior TO their deportation the con
tributions to help them fight deporta-
tions were $1,000 Miss Goldmans
bank book, seized when her magazine
vas suppressed, showed weekly depos-
It's running from $50 to 500. with one
Of over $500. They lived at the best
hotels In fact, they offered to pay
their own way to Russia, or, failing
that, the difference between steerage
and first class in order to have the best
accommodations,