New-York tribune., 1920-01-06

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uhl said that such an arrangemer
would be lnconvenient unless seI
arate staff OF examiners was provide
to conduct the hearings at Camp Ul
ton.
Mr.. Uhl said that preliminary hear
ings had begun at Ellis Island to deter
mine whether any of those held a
alien Communists were. actually cit
zens of the United States. Out of 451
he said. twelve had convinced the in
spectoys of the immigration depart
ment that they were citizens by natu
ralizat'on. These were sent back t
Manhattan yesterday afternoon. as th
Department of Labor has no jurisdic
tion if the radical is citizen.
When eleven of these citizens lande,
at the Barge Office, however, the.
found that their troubles were no
over, for they we're taken into custod,
again by Department of Justice mel
and probably will have to stand tria
in state court on the charge 0.
criminal anarchy.
The twelfth person released was
woman, Rose Baron, OF ,317 Secone
Avenue. She was permitted to returr
to her home where her mother is i'll
Mr.. Uhl said he had ordered the re-
lease of the woman because she hac
been improperly committed" there
having been no warrant for her ar.
reached home, Mr.. Uhl was served with
a writ of habeas corpus obtained in
her behalf by Harry Weinberger.
The writ ordered Mr.. Uhl to pro-
duce Miss Baron at 2 O'Clock before
Judge Knox in the Federal District
Court. When it was learned the wom-
an had been released the tangle was
Strengthened out by telephone.
Miss Baron's departure left forty
women and 401 men radicals on Ellis
lsland.g They sleep in dormitories on
the top floor of the administration
building and are fed in one of the large
dining rooms: During the day they
are kept In four large rooms on the
third floor of the administration build
ing,
Each of these rooms has cement
flooring and wainscoting of white
tile, so that it resembles a New YORK
lunch room stripped of furniture.
When the door of one Of these rooms
was unlocked yesterday afternoon the
sun was streaming through the win
dow bars on Russian Soviet in the
process of organization. About 1876
unshaved men, whose wrinkled cloth
ing testified that it had been slept in,
against the walls, giving ear to man
who narangued them in the Russian
table.
The speakers flanpe, shirt and
shabby dark coat were reinforced with
Datn Cowei worn as a muffler about
his neck. His thick black hair was
too ,ong to win approval from members
OF the BARRIERS union, and his rather
square, sailow face was bristly with
a three days growth of beard. He
paused with upraised arm and clenched
1lst when his auditors gave a sibilant
warning that his words were reaching
ears that might be unfriendly.
After moment he continued his talk
but the fire had gone from his man
ner and his gestures were spiritless, so
that even the sudden lack of interest
IN his remarks shown by his auditors
est listeners that he had changed his
subject abruptly until they should be
gone and locked the door behind them.
a similar meetlng was in progress in
another room. Here and there in the
group could be. distinguished the wear
er CT collar that was white perhaps
three or four days ago. Usually such
an lndl:idual WAS spectacled and wore
beard that appeared to have been
trimmed occasionally. One of these
PRODUCED, list for an official who
pore the names of the persons they
should like to have visit them
rms prospective exile, when he had
oeen told That arrangements were be-
ing made for. visiting, day, turned
and translated the announcement for
the benefit of the others, who showed
no enthusiasm beyond an increase in
the volume of their never-ceasing chat
ter Most Of them appeared downcast,
if not sullen.
The women were quite a cheerful
looking lot. About half of the forty
wear their hair bobbed. When the door
OF their detention room was opened
yesterday several OF those who have
not cut their tresses were combinp
them carefully. All of the women ap-
parently were continuing to take that
interest in their personal appearance
which the men for the present, anyway,
have lost.
The faces of the women were clean
end the cheeks of a few bore traces
of rouge. Most of them were young
and none appeared to be more than
thirty years old. Nearly every one
wore woolen sweater
Al! appeared relieved when they we're
Informed that messages they had writ
ten had been telegraphed to friends
and relatives.
They were asked yesterday how
many of them had husbands among the
men held on Ellis Island. About twelve
held up their hands. Then they were
asked how many had sweethearts among
the men held and all of the others
raised their hands with laugh.
Acting Commissioner Uh1 has assured
the married women that they will be
given an opportunity to see their hus-
bands as frequently as possible DUR
ing their stay on the Island and the
same privilege is to be extended to the
sweetheart pairs.
Mr.. uhl also has assured them that
each interested couple will be assigned
to the same boat in case they do not
establish citizenship or in some other
way escape deportation.
The guards on Ellis Island say the
present lot of radicals are not as
nasty" as those who ACCOMPANIED
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk-
man on the army transport Buford.
When that lot were summoned to attend
hearings before immigration inspectors
they refused to answer to their names
and only with great difficulty were they
finally identified.
This lot,s however, was given no
chance to cause any such trouble. They
were photographed with conspicuous
number pinned to their arm before they
were released in the detention rooms.
DR.. Michael Mislig, 155 East
Eightieth Street who Is decIarad hx