New-York tribune., 1919-07-25
Red Agitators
lobe Deported
By Wholesale
Score of Members of I.W.W
Here on List as Among
First to Go as Result of
Work of Lusk Committee

Wholesale deportations of Bolshevik
agitators and propagandists was prom
iscd yesterday when Byron H. Uhl of
the staff of the Commissioner of I'M
migration, assigned Inspector A. B.
Schell to the Luck committee with in
structions to proceed Immediately on
the evidence developed by the legisla-
tive investigators. In a letter to SEN
ator Lusk, Mr.. Uhl declared his inten-
tion of cooperating with the committee
in curbing the activities of the radicals
and requested especially that evidence
against the l. W. w. be turned over to
Schell At least score of the Boil
shcvik agitators will be deported, as
soon as the machinery can be put in
motion, on the evidence already gath
cred, it was said
Members of the committee declined
to say who they will recommend for
deportation, but it was intimatcd that
the initial action will be taken against
officials Of the local I. W. w. Their
headquarters was raided by the COM
mittee some time ago and sufficient
evidence to warrant the deportation, it
is said, of at least twenty mem bers was
gathered.
Lawyer on Stand
Ven Svarc, Cleveland lawyer, who
was a member of the Czecho- Slovak
commission to Petrograd, was the only
witness called before the committee
yesterday. He told in graphic detail
of events that led up to the Bo!shevik
revolution, and how the followers of
Trotzky and Lcninc had "crushed the
spirit of once great Russia
Mr.. Svarc paid a tribute to the wo-
mems "Battalion of Death" which he
described as the only trustworthy force
tion. He asserted that this body made
brave fight against the Red Guard
and suffered brutal fate when over
come by superior force.
The witness said he was sure 80 per
cent of the people of Russia were not
interested in the fine distinctions of
the form of government under which
they live. He said their one great de-
sire was to be let alone, to work out
their own salvation. This, he cX-
planned, was difficult because the
agents Of unrest arc constantly ming
ling with the people and exciting them
to murder all suspected enemies Of the
Bolshcvik.
Have Propaganda School
lie told Of a propaganda school es-
tablished by The Bolsheviki, which
trained operatives for work in all parts
of the world. his>ins.irution, accord
ing to the witness, was modelled after
the German Committee Of the East,
which trained Propagandists for work
in special countries. The witness eX-
planned that the Russians are wonder
full linguists and that they have sent
hundreds Of trained men into India
and China with funds to carry on the
work.
In answer to questions designed to
show that the Bolsheviki here have
adopted the same methods as applied in
Russia, Mr.. Svarc told how they pre-
pared for the revolution by forming
sovists ln the shops and factories and
spreading the seeds of unrest among
the workers, on whom they were de-
pendent when the actual revolution
started. The fact that the Bolsheviki
and their I. W. W. allies have been
carrying ca their work along these
lines here has already been established
by the conmittee.
He said the Bolsheviki, instead of
maintaining the various instrumental
ties that would make it easy to procure
employment, destroyed them.
The committee will resume its hear
ing to-day, when Mr.. Svarc will be re-
called to the stand Several labor
leaders will also be called.