Bisbee daily review., 1920-04-25
WANT TO DEPORT
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 .PROOF l r BEING
 PARTY ME MBERS
Secretary of Labor Wilson Hears Arraignment of Red
 Organization ."CUTTHROAT ALIENS"
 DECLARES OFFICER Toleration of Radicals by Administration Charged
 By Federal Judge

WASHINGTON. April "A. - Sec ! day argument. took under advisement tonight the question whether mem bership in the communist labor par ty in itself constituted grounds for deportation of aliens.
 During the hearing there was a flare-up over a statement attributed to Federal Judge Anderson of Bos ton that the government operates some part of the communist party in this country" Swinburn Hale, Of New York. upholding it. and J. Hoover, of the department of justice, declaring it an "unjustificable miscenception Of the facts
 Armed with volumnous communist literature, Hoover attempted to show by quotations of lengthy excerpts the relations between communist Ia, bor party and the third internation- ale.
 ASSeIllHS llldI JOilH IIttu, ldSl It- ported detained in Abo Finland for utilization with the Bolsheviki, was the founder of the communist labor party. Hoover declared it was like all other communist organizations, "a gang of cut-throat aliens who have come to this country to overthrow the government by force"
 Fifty percent of the influence be- hind the recent strikes, Hoover said. was directly traceable to the com to distinguish between the commun- ist party and the communist labor party, Hale declared the application blank of the communist labor party made the applicant bound to be guided by the principles of the par ty.
 An applicant for membership in the communist party on the other hand, he said pledged support as "sn activer worker"
 The platform of the communist pa ty, Hale asserted was nothing mole than the socialism of Kari Marx and argument for action of masses" was subject to a political interpretation.
 Palmer Makes Defense.
 Attorney General Palmer tonight de nied the statement by Hale at tOday's hearing that Louis C. Frainia, describ- ed as secretary of the communist party of America, was m agent or the ae- partment of justice. Frainia, he said, had never rendered any service to the department.
 Discussing the departments activi- ! ties in connection with the raids and deportation proceedings, the attorney general said:
 Certain statements have recently appeared in the public press to the eff feet that the department of justice had had its agents actively identified in the formation of the communist party and the communist labor party. and was to a large extent responsible for the agitation and unrest caused by those two organizations through their propaganda There is no foundation whatever for this charge. Of course. the department of justice has used confidential informants ever since it's bureau of investigation was establish ed, but they are under strict instruc- tions not to engage actively in any or ganizations under their investigation. There is no instance of the adminis- tration of the department of justice in which any confidential informant has actively engaged in the councils of the communist party or the communist la bar party. One of the specific in stances charged to the confidential in formants of the department of justice is to the effect that they were instru- mental in the holding of meetings of the communist party on Jan. 2, 1920. That was the regular meeting night of the communist party throughout the country, which held it's meetings on the first Friday of each month.