Bisbee daily review., 1920-05-06
WILSON RULES
 FOR RADICALS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE,

Since Mir Wilson already has
 held that an alien could not be
 deported because of membership
 in the |. w. w. only membership
 in the Communist party now
 brings an alien within the pur-
 view of the law providing de-
 portation for those affiliated with
 existin congratulations that be-
 heVe in or advocate the over
 throw by force or violence of the
 government.
 Excerpts from the Communist la Dor party platform and program in dicato an extremely radical obiec. tive. said Secretary Wilson in a re Niew of the case, ''but there is noth- ing in them that discloses an inten. ton to use force or violence or that is incompatible with the use of pariia mentary machinery to attain the radical view that is expressed.
 "The belief in, teaching, and ad-
 vocacy of the class struggle. mass
 action, the conquest of political
 power, the dictatorship of tle
 proletariat, Socialism, Commun-
 ism, the One Big Union, shop con,-
 mttees, shop stewards and other
 social industrial and economic
 changes mentioned in the Com
 nunist labor party platform and program, however repulsive they
 Ln &A L- AF
 all Of our people, do not bring
 the organization Withh, the pur-
 view of the act as long as it does
 not propose to use force or vio-
 Ience to accomplish the purpose.
 'If the American people are left free to discuss and decide the ques- tions presenting themselves for con sideration from day to day, uninflu- enced by the threat of force or vio- lence, they can be relied upon to pro- tect themselves against any false philosophies. wild eyed revolutions or dictatorships of any kind"
 Commenting tonight on Sec
 retary Wilson's labor ruling, As
 sistant Attorney General Garvan
 said Ii meant that "aII aliens can
 enter the fold of the Communist
 labor party and the government
 cannot touch them"
 He added that they would lad vocate revolution and keep on
 advocating it with perfect inn punity unless congress changed the law"
 Mir Garvan said that until MT. Pal mer had had an opportunity to study the opinion in the case, the depart ment's course as to further action against radicals could not be de, termined.
 Creates Boishevik Haven The department of justice raids o1 last January disclosed membership of the Communist Labor party to be be tween 50,000 and 60,000, Mir GaI van said But he did not believe these figures indicated the actual strength of the group nor. he said, did tkey reveal anything ''as to the nuniben of Bolsheviks which will flock to the haven created by the latest ruling
 Releases Reds
 Mir. Garvan declared the department of labor already had released about 1900 members of the Communist la bor party who were taken in the Jan uary raids, and that warrants in the cases of about 200 others would by as a result of the ruling. Chairman Johnson of the house i'm committee declaIed in statement tonight that congress, in passing the law to deporl undesir- ables, intended to reach the very element which Secretary Wilson held d'u not come within its scope.
 -if the senate will rass the alien deportation bill, which the house passed without a dissenting vote December 20 last" MT. John son said, i've will be able to reach those aliens here who talk about revolution by ballot when they can not vote, and who, when they say ballot, mean bullet"