Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-29
PROBE BEGUN INTO
POSTS ATTITUDE IN
RED DEPORTA7IONS

WASHINGTON. April Elm.
yestigation of the conduct Of Louis
+. Post. assistant secretary of the
department of labor, in the deporta
ton proceedings against radica
aliens was begun today by the house
rules committee.
For months the fight on Mr.. Post
has been brewing in congressional.
circles, but the rules committee in
vestigation is the first attempt al
a formal airing of the charges, made
openly in the house, that the aSSiS'
tant secretary is unduly friendly
with enemies of the American form
of government.
Although the resolution before the
committee looks toward the possible
impeachment of Mr. Post, the plan
of Chairman Campbell and other
Republican leaders calls for the
rules committee making a full in
quiry. and in event of an adverse
finding to report a resolution to be
adopted only by the house, urging
the removal of the assistant secre-
tary.
Representative Hoch. Republican
Kansas, author f the resolution, sp-
looking to impeachment would be
conducted by the judiciary commit
tee, but he said he and others were
prepared to present their full case
before the rules committee.
Besides Mr.. Hook several mem
bers of the house immigration com
mittee, including Representative
Johnson, Republican, Washington
its chairman, were to appear as
witnesses.
Investigators of the immigration
committee, Mr.. Johnson said, had
Y no n1
which rulings had been made by the
assistant secretary, and these he
declared would be used largely to
prove the attitude of Mr.. Post in
dealing with radical agitators. The
work of the Investigators, he said
few weeks.
Representative Hoch, of Kansas,
declared that hundreds of radical
aliens deportation orders were can
celled by Mr.. Post. He charged that
Secretary Post ordered the release of
at least thirty-eight radical aliens,
even before hearings were held.
Members of the committee attack
ed Secretary of Labor Wilson for
allowing decisions of Mr.. Post to
stand. Representative Johnson, of
South Dakota, declared that the fail
ure OF. Secretary Wilson to overrule
MI. Post in any case indicates he
nature
to deport the radicals.
Would Russianize America
There is no doubt" said Mr..
Hoch, that there exists a wide
spread and carefully planned effort
tc RusSlanize this country-to over
throw this government by force and
violence. The movement is not only
against orderly government but it is
against the institution of marriage,
toto
adjustment of civilization.
The attitude of a responsible Of
hclal towards the law against alien
anarchists is, therefore, of vital con-
Germ. There is no room in this coun-
try for aliens who come not to be-
come responsible citizens but to
poison the public thought against our
institutions and to preach violence
against our government and officials.
They are getting off easy by only
being sent home.
!iere is the situation: many hun
dreds of aliens, taken for deporta-
ton under the law against alien
anarchists, have been turned loose
Among them are not only aliens taken
others taken under individual ar
rests all over the country because Of
their known activities. d"
My information is based almost
solely on the findings of investiga-
tors for the committee on immigra-
tlon. There is no doubt in my mind
that the public interests demand the
inquiry. There should be a show
doWn in the situation, which has be-
come intolerable.''
Koch Cites Cases
Mr.. Hoch mentioned the cases of
Gabriel Bushof, Philadelphia. En-
rique MACON, Los Angeles, and Paul
Bosco, West Virginia, as three exam
pies of cases in which Post cancelled
recommended by the bureau Of i'm
migration. These aliens admitted
that they advocated overthrowing the
government by force and violence,
he said. He declared that T.. C. A. K.
Martens, the so-called soviet ambas-
sador, was allowed to enter the
United States by the labor depart
ment and released upon his own
recognizance.
THE public is seeing it's laws vio-
lated" said Chairman Johnson, of
the immigration committee, by pub
lie officials in behalf of aliens who
have contempt for this government,
who are here trying to overthrow it,
and who are in league with similar
whether they call themselves Social
lists, Bolshevists, Communists or
anarchists, or whether they con-
tribute dollars to the cause" or
throw bombs for "the cause"
eff necessary, congress should
clean out any executive department
that encourages these aliens or in
dorses their ideas.
II do not believe President Wilson
or Secretary of Labor Wilson know
the situation and the dangers of
POSTS pOlicT''