The New York herald., 1920-01-30
MAY FREE RADICALS
DESPITE SILENCE
Secretary of Labor Rules Re-
fusal to Answer Question Is
No Bar to Being Bailed.
REJOICING AMONG REDS
Offici1lS Here Declare Action viii
>ulhfy Muoh Of the Good Work q
Accomplished by Recent Trials.

Ncdifiation Of immigration regulations
announced by Secretary Wilson, OF the
Department of Labor. yesterday were re-
celved With rcioicfag by the three or four
hundred Reds detained on Ellis Island
wien u bocane known that refusing TO
answer questions Viil not be allowed 20
stand in the way - their getting released
On han The further privilege OF getting
t~sl unless they have an Immediate hear
ire was likewise cause of great rejoicing
among them and their lawyers.
rncldentany the announcement from
Washington % theae changes In the regu-
atious brought cut the fart that tho re-
antions between the lawyers representing
the Reds ard the government officials on
Eins Island have been attended with fric-
ton well nigh % the sraining point.
Counsel FOR the Feds claimed a great vic
tory in he ruling q Secretary Wilson. q.
~. Uhl. Acting CornmisSicncr of Immigra-
fion. declined 70 discuss the change OF
policy further than 90 say.-''if these men
are permitted 70 20 free on bal without
being auizzed ANYBODY can see that the re-
suits ~ the raids against rsdioalism viii
he materially changed"
s'IIerctofof7 wc haven't been allowed 10
personally investigate the cases OF our
clients al Ellis Island" said Rose Weiss.
Of the law office of Charles Recht. who
has been one % the most active attorneys
In the interests OF tho detained Reds.
There has been no fairness for the ac-
IssrH INN zFlIfFn
hundred have been huddled together In
one biz room and influenza has appeared
among them.
Roth Commissioner I-hi and Superin-
tendent T.. A. Baker denied this statement
Il want 10 say this once and for all.
said Mr. Uhl. that whenever lawyer
has shown the officials Of the lmmigra-
ton Bureau at Ellis Island that he or
she has been retained by client tnat
lawyer has been permitted 10 confer win
the client in perfect freedom. We have
forbidden such lawyers, however, from
rningling AT large with the detained aliens.
for there Is no telling what MISCHIEF they
may not have started II allowed 10 80
a about promiscuousiy among the radicals
Some idea OF the fslsehoods wnicn navs
been scattered as propaganda IN oensii
Of these detained aliens may be had when
I mention a story that was published WIN
rlaring headlines in a Socialist paper
day or two ago, to the effect that one OF
the men held here as a dangerous ahen
had died IN great agony on the iloor ot
tho main hall without medical attention.
The name OF the man was gwen ano "
was stated that he had died tearing nus
hair and calling for aid. and all that sort
there and alive.
.'The truth OF the matter Ia that the man
whose name was mentioned as dying mao
been taken 10 the hospital five DAYS before
the reported death, and that man Is suii
thre and alive.
1T is true that we have an epidem'c
Of Influenza among the detained aliens ana
immigrants at Ellis Island. and X Is true
that three OF the suspected aliens nave
died within the last two or thre< oays.
But IL is also true that the epidemic Is nor
a third as serious on the island amons
the immigrants as IL Is In New YORK
city"
Within the last few days about i've
hundred alleged anarchists and radicals
have been taken to Ellis Island. but many
of them have given bail and are out su-
perintendent Baker said yesterday that
there were only about 3i5 or Seo held now
awaiting further investigation and prob
able deportation.