The Washington herald., 1920-01-04
Agents Of BOIsheyIsm.

Agents of BOIsheyIsm.
THE Department now has under sur
veiIlance leaders nown to be direct
agents of Bolshevism in this country.
and a few personal emissaries of
Lenine and Trotsky are likely to be
arrested in the near future. These
win be held by the Labor Department.
subject to review by high Federal
courts only upon the issuance Of a
writ Of habeas corpus.
The government has under sur
VIGILANCE thousands more technical
America rs" suspected of aiding
their foreign comrades in plotting
the overthrow of the government
These technical Americans" -
citizens under the strict interpreted
tiUn Of the law who have refused or
fail-J 20 absorb the spirit of Amer
lean institutions-are for the most
part going free only because Attor-
ney General Palmer does not be-
Iieve he has authority to carry
through prosecutions against them,
even though he should start.
To meet this situation. Palmer
has asked Congress for new legis-
lation which will allow him to i'm
sliArs
81 hesitateS to use the eSpiori
~ v. because the act was pass
D. . war measure and Is not.
n. ore. q proper peace time in
sfe,r nj In addition. he fears the
PCS l.gnatien of peace might rem
dcr prosecutions under the. law in
sTsctive after they were started.
Civil War Law Tried.
'Flc department OF Justice also has
III {. use an old law passed to meet
conditions arising during the civil
Wa -wo men suspected of red &C
tlyZles have been arrested under this
isN. 1ut a Federal judge held that
tie Ia. was not applicable to their
ease a d freed them
IN ill which Palmer has proposed
to Congress is much the same as
that sponsored by Senator Sterling, of
South Dakota, which the Senate ex-
meets to take up soon. This measure
would aim TO prevent citizens doing
the things aliens are deported for do
ing by imposing fines and Jail SEN
fences.
Palmer and other supporters of this
legislation declare they do not wish
to make illegal peaceful agitation
which aims at change through the
ballot, but merely to prevent posi-
bility Of armed rule by a minority.
Lenders In Dragnet.
Among the prominent leaders taken
into custody were Wincenty DmOwski.
editor Of the Clos Robotnichzy. Of De
troit. Mich and D. Elbaum, assistant
editor Of the same paper.
A third leader arrested was Meyer
Iloonin. national secretary of the Jew
ish Branch Of the Communist party.
Loonin is from New York, but was
arrested In kansas City. Mo.
Another important arrest made We
that Of Koralius. in Boston. KOralius
IL Che national organizer Of the Com
niunist party and was taken with all
his papers and records.
The only slip-up in the entire raid
occurred at st. Paul where agents
reported that a number of those for
whom warrants had been ISSUED os-
capped because of "a leak from Chi
cago"
The large majority of those who
were arrested were Russians. although
in some cities there were a number
Of Croatian and Slavic aliens taken
into custody. In San Francisco one
Chinese Communist was arrested.
Two Germans were taken in San
Francisco. as well as one English
man. For the most part those ar
rested were woTkmen or agitators. q
particularly large numbers of them
being from the coal fields and the
great industrial factories.