The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1920-01-07
REDS PUT UP BIG
FIGHT WITH OFFICERS
OF ELLIS ISLAND FORCE
Fourteen Radicals Attending Com
munist Meeting Trapped In New
York Round Up
FEMALE "SOVIETS"
SCRAP MOVIE MEN
Man Badly Scratched Another Deco
rated With Black Eye as
Result Left Swing"

New York, Jan. 6.-Fourteen men
and women attending meeting of
the communist Labor party were ar
rested by Department of Justice
agents in raid late today on the Of
fees of the Navy Mir, Russian Soviet
newspaper. The agents also found
cards on which were the names of
1000 communists throughout the Unit
ed States.
Arrive at Ellis Island
While this raid was in progress
tifty-seven more alien plotters includ-
ing Alexander Dormun, said to be
leader of New Jersey and Eastern
Pennsylvania communists arrived at
Ellis Island under guard to take their
places with the other hundreds swept
up in the governments dragnet of
foreign revolutionaries.
First Outbreak
At the island the first outbreaks
since the beginning of the Department
of Justice raids were reported. The
Ellis Island Soviet" established by
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk-
man and their companions, who are
now on the way to Russia on the
Park Buford, came to new life in two
revolts. Gregory Weinstein hailed as
Trotzky's closest friend in the United
States and chief of staff of Ludwig
c. A. Martens, Ambassador of Soviet
Russia" refused to be, photogrs phed
and fought desperately when half a
dozen inspectors forced him to pose
for the official camera
Rush Movie Men
In the women's department thirty
nine feminine radicals rose in body
from dinner and rushed "movie" men
off the premises. On the return of the
camera men with seven burly inspec-
tors, the women charged again and
swept the place clear after spirited
fight. The casualties were one man
badly scratched and another decorated
with black eye, the result of cleft
swing" by a girl, who said she had
fought in the Russian women's Bat
TALON OF Death.
Misleg Is Jail-bound.
Tomorrow Supreme Court Justice
Davis is to sign an order committing
to Jail Dr.. Michael Misleg treasurer of
@ Novy Mir, for contempt of the
mt Legislative committee investi-
ting seditious activities in New
' TX. BY Justice Davis order Misleg
w be kept in durance until he an
sw ers the questions of the commit
tee.
Martens Refuses Request
Deputy Attorney General Berger an
nounced today that Martens and San
teri Nuortev, secretary of Martens
embassy" will be similarly dealt
with, as. will all others who decline
to testify or produce documents for
the committee. Martens and Nuevtra
refused to answer questions and no
produce books and papers of the "em-
bassy." Both claimed diplomatic i'm
munity as representatives Of foreign
government.
Criminal Anarchy Charged
Harry Winitsky, secretary of the
communist party, taken in the federal
raids Friday night, was released today
by the Department Of Justice upon
his production of evidence of citizen
ship. He is awaiting trial in the
State courts charged with criminal
anarchy.
Included in the prisoners taken in
the raid on Novy Mir was DR.. Vic
tor Pachakchy formerly companion
of Lenine and Trotzky.
Soviet Leader
According to agents of the Depart
ment of Justice. Dr. Pachakchy was
one Of the leaders in the Russian
Soviet revolution in 1907 following
which he was exiled to Siberia. After
escaping to South America through
Germany, he returned to Europe in
1914 to become associated with Lenine
in formenting Bolshevism. He came
to the United States in 1916 and
worked with Leon Trotzky as a lee
turer.
Indications that the "Reds" quar-
tered on Ellis Island do not lack fl
nancial resources were given when
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn declared to-