Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-06
BATTLE FUND.- Of
100000 PLAN OF
REDS. SAYS REPORT
Deportation Action Against
More Radicals Is Begun,
Arrests. Now Total Be-
tween 1900 and 5000

nearly S1,uuOsVVU Was the dALI u
radical leaders arrested in the "red"
roundup, it was learned today at the
department of justice.
A large share of the fund was
III the Golfers of the societies broken
up by the raids.
Justice department secret agents
now are investigating to learn the
exact amount already collected which
is estimated at several hundred thou
sand dollars. Approximately $780,
600 had been collected by the ma
tional officials of the Communist
labor party whose headquarters were
at Chicago.
Justice department officials today
were unprepared to say what will be
done with the funds.
Officials now are attempting to
tabulate and summarize the results
OF the raids which began Friday
night, and determine the exact num-
her of arrests, believed to total be-
tween $500 and. 5000. 1t is eX-
pected that the tabulation will be
IInlSQ6u 1dIS lONGty ak "144NIA N3AAiS
Attorney General Palmer will make
public the exact number of arrests
and the number in each city.
Deportation Action Begins
Deportation action against scores
of the revoIutionists rounded up by
the government during the last few
( days was instituted today by A. j.
Caminetti, commissioner general of
imnigration. Arrangements for
hearings Were ordered speeded up,
so the deportable reds" may be
hustled back to Russia, and the way
cleared for more nationwide raids
which the department of justice
probably will undertake at irregu
lar intervals.
Investigation of the Bolshevist
menace by the Russian affairs diVi-
sion ofithe state department, showed
that thu avowed purpose Of Lenine
and Trdsky was to overthrow exist
ing governments and standards of
society throughout the world, and
substitute the soviet form Of gov
\ ernmene and daily life, according to
an offidal announcement made to-
cay by Secretary Lansing.
This Io1shevist program has fall
gu III IetSSId dill WiAS1S 10 :
suits to date are Decentralization,
civil wa and economic collapse"
the announcement said.
The raort containing these con-
Glusionss has been handed by the
ssate d6fIrtment to the COMPRESSION
fore1g afaIrs committees.
Eubjects of Reports
Inc reAort embraces the following
subjects:k
"1.-ChIracter OF Bolshevist rule
the thet eticaI dictatorship of the
proletariaP acknowledged to be the
rule OF akninority, with a definite
policy of preliminary destruction,
is found | fact to have degenerated
into a clok monopoly Of power by
a very snail group who use the
most opp. Auristic and tyrannical
methods, 1Sluding mass terror
"2.-Eco mic results of Boil
shevist col.koi-while existing on
the accul Hated wealth of the
country, tf' hPoIshevist regime has
brought at t a complete economic
collapse, Ah consequent famine
ard epiderOH The claim Of the
3olsheYisks hat economic isolation
is wholly kponsible for the eco-
nomic chaoaN n soviet Russia, cam
not be susn he'd. The BoIshevist
program hfsInot worked. and Boil
shevism has to it's credit no con
struct1ve accomplishment.
3.-Bolshefst program of world
revolutionary of the main aims OF
the BolShevist leaders from the
very beginning has been to make
their movement a worldwide social
revolution. They insistently declare
mat success IN Russia depends or
the developmerR of corresponding
social revolut1oHs in all other coun-
tries, BolsheV1Skpolicies and tactics
are subordinateN to the idea of the
International prRetarian revolution.
Apparent compfk nises with 'bour-
sseois' governmeAs or countries have
proved temper = and tactical
New Fl Gs Expected
While this - mort was being
studied by comb SIS. federal agents
continued herdlSo in the scattered
members of the knmunist and COM
InGnist labor pc, - through which,
il is alleged, LeRe and Trotslty
l'iotted to str1lin lat the United
states governm eea2 New figures on
the total nunbesS crested, and the
total number helds1 ere expected to-
day.
Radicals taken II the government
raids on the conn Rnist and COM
munist labor parti all have ma
chinery set for fig Ing desperate
against deportation, was announc-
ed toady at the del -tment of Jus
tice. Lawyers have Zen engaged in
practically every CT where raids
were made and off tails predicted
thew would take adv +oqe of everv
technicality until til clients &C
tua1ly were aboard We els bound for
their native land.
In view of this in rn1ation. As
sistant Attorney-GeI -s1 Garvan
gave instructions to s led the work
of completing the Eidence with
which he hopes to maxi Lamentations
certain.
Mr.. GarVan said THAI while the
government believed pAnof of mem
bership in either organiza +ion tn he
sufficient basis for depdrt. zion there
must be considered the 1iIxe1ihood
that many of the persoTSs held might
attempt to show they re1onnced their
affiliations prior to the Aovernnnent'S
declaration that the entirh alien mem
rership Of the comrplI!xGA and com
llunlst Id parties werAgeportahla
Nabeas Corpus PIEsaed
Habeas corpus proceedikgs will DE
employed in a majority q the cases
Caravan believed.
privileges accorded the 1adicaIs I'M
" Gar present laws with respect to bail
complexities the departments work
officials said. Persons held on sucn
charges as have been filed against
those taken into custody in these
raids may gain freedom On $1,000
bond. But the two parties which
the department is attempting to dis,
perse, are known to have a "slush
fund Mr.. Garvan declaled, and
large amounts of this Ave been