The Alaska daily empire., 1920-02-02
AS THE ARK" SAILED
 An American Soldiers Observation

1 land to the Buford anchored in the i, stream were the reds convinced that
 they would be deported. Even. the
 calling of the deportation roll they had considered but final Yankee i bluff preceding their release. The assurance of migration officers and visiting government officials that the country would have no more of them was without avail. They believed public sentiment would not permit | of their deportation, despite the lack of public interest evidenced in their
 hunger strike" for sympathy. Following the collapse of their
 "hunger strike" the anarchists form
 ed the first soviet anarchistic com. mune" of Ellis Island. Alexander Berkman, for thirty years consort of Emma Goldman in the spread ing of anarchistic propaganda, was elected grand commissary.
 The deportation of Berkman and Goldman. had been agitated for more than ten years, but no formal proceedings were instituted until 1919. They were then begun as re suit of the alarming radical act ivities following the war, which in cluded the Seattle and Winnipeg general strikes, the sending of bombs through the mails, the formation of branches of the Communist party and plans for anarchistic demonstra- tions on the anniversary of the form ing of the Soviet Republic of Rus sia. This last was frustrated by the November raids.
 During the thirty years of theii joint career as advocates of over. throw by violence of the government of the United States Berkman spent sixteen years and Goldman three in jail Berkman served fourteen years for shooting the late Henry Clay Prick and two for obstructing the draft. Goldman served two for opposing conscription and one year for in. citing to riot But neither were pun ished for the part their teachings played in attacks by others on fife and property.
 Their joint activities as publishers Earth and The Blast, suppressed 1 during the war, combined with their | addresses at anarchist meetings, help ed cause the assassination of Pres | ident Mckinley. Their influence was
 traced in the dynamiting of the Los l A ,,~ro ed of giving German money to op.
 pose preparedness. They cooperated with German spies in endeavoring
 to promote revolution in India dur
 ing the war They were the pioneer l radicals in the United States. Berkman is fifty years old and Goldman Is forty nine. : Both were born in Russia. Goldman came to
 the United States when fifteen, but little is known of Berkman's life prior to his association with Gold
 man. They made their hcadquar- | tefs in New York. where their mag
 azines were published, but were we'll
 known throughout the United States
 anNN, in Canada, England, Australia
 and Holland, where they addressed anarchfstic meetings Before the deportees boarded the ! Ellis Island tug which conveyed them to the transport, Emma Gold
 man told the immigration officials :
 "The United States has signed it's | death warrant in this deportation. am not going to stop my work so long as my life rests with me-" iBerkman threatened: Were com | ing back, and we'll get you!" Aboard the Buford Peter Bianky general secretary of the Union of
 Russian Workers, led the cry oi Hong live the revolution in the Un | tied States.
 l AS the Buford passed the Statue ! of Liberty, the deportees in chorus
 shouted in fond farewell ITO Hell