New-York tribune., 1920-01-04
Examination Frees 474
Taken in New York-Jer-
sey Roundup; Others
May BeDeported at Once
Bomb Squad Raids
Four Offices Here
Letter in Yiddish Purport-
ing to Have Been Writ
ten by Lenine Found

The dormitories Of Ellis Island.
empty since the army transport Buford
sailed for Russia on December FL with
249 exiled radicals aboard, resounded
again last night with the voices Of ap-
proximately 400 Comrades" and "fel-
low workers" singing the "Internation-
ale"
This chorus, which included twenty
women, represented the New York
and New Jersey grist Of "Red" raids
conducted late Friday night by agents
Of the Department Of Justice on COM
munist meeting places in all parts of
the country. These and the others
takcn In raids In the West and South
are to be put aboard the army trans
ports Fitzpatrick, America and Presi-
dent Grant and returned to the lands
Of their birth. This means Russia for
80 per cent Of those who are being
held as undesirables.
Crowds Arc Examined
All told, 875 radicals, including
thixty-ffvo women. were examined in
the Park Row Building. headquarters
Of the Department Of Justice bureau
of investigation. By 4 o'clock yester-
day morning 474 Of these had been re-
leased because they were able to sup
ply proof that they. had been born in
the United States, or acquired citizen
ship, or because they were able to con-
vince the Federal officers that they
were not affiliated with the commu-
mist party. The other 2O1 were taken
in automobiles to the Barge Office, at
the Battery, put aboard .the small
carried to Ellis Island. There they
were photographed and finger printed
and assigned to beds.
The Offices of four foreign language
newspapers of radical tendencies were
raided last night by the detectives Of
the bomb squad and state constabulary,
who seized about ten tons Of literature.
The raiders were accompanied by Arch
ibald E. Stevenson, legal adviser to the
Lusk Committee, to which body the
conflscated books, pamphlets and rec
ords will be turned over.
Warrants Issued by McAdoo
The seizures were made on search
warrnts issued by Chief Magistrate
McAdoo. Mr.. Stevenson made the af-
iidavlts upon which the warrants were
issued charging that literature advo-
eating overthrow Of government by
force was on the premises named.
Offices Of the Communist World"
(Russian) and "Elore," Hungarian
daily, both at Third Street; "Der
Kampf," Jewish weekly, Alb
Grand Street. and "Robitniks Ukra,
inian semi-weekly, 222 Fifth Street,
were the places seached.
At the latter office Detective Sergeant
Gegan and Mr.. Stevenson discovered an
original letter, written in Yiddish. ad-
dressed to the american Working.
men, and purporting to be from Nicolai
Lenine.
The Department Of Justice agents
here said yesterday that several Of
their numbers were devoting all their
mdnist party Ludwig c. A. X. Mar
tens, the so-called ambassador to the
United States from Soviet Russia. If
this connection is established Martens
will be sent the way Of EmmaI Gold
man and Alexander Berkman,
Leaders Evade Ira.
The men working under the direc-
ton OF William Flynn, chief Of the
bureau Of Investigation of the Depart
ment of Justice, admitted freely yes
terday that they were bit disap-
pointed that their net had not caught
some Of the important alien leaders
Of the plot to "fan the flames OF dis
content" in America.
Among those released were four
Stuyvesant High School girls about
Il
not divulged, as the girls pleaded that
meeting place, at 1864 Madison Avenue,
where they were arrested, merely out
of curiosity. They were of Russian de-
scent. but were born in the United
States.
Another woman seized in the raids
was not even brought to headquarters
for examination, because she told the
Department of Justice agents that she
had slipped out of her fiat to attend
the meeting, leaving her three small
children home. She was tod to go
home, and before she started she vowed
never to attend another communist
gathering.
Letters Believed Struggled
As most of the Department Of Jus
tice men were fatigucd from loss OF
sleep, the work of examining the huge
pile Of confiscated literature OF the
communist party seized by the raiders
was postponed. However. deep interest
was aroused by the finding Of file OF
letters written on onion skin paper
These letters were found in the Office
Of "Novy Mir" the Russian language
revolutionary newspaper.
Tho letters had not been completely
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