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PALMER CHARGES
SYMPATHY ByPOST
FOR ANARCHISTS
Tells House Committee Per-
sonaI Views Dictated As
sistant Secretary's Course.

s0nal Views Dictated AS
sistant Secretary's Course.
Charging that Louis F. Post, as
sistant secretary OF labor. had a per
| verte,i sympathy" for the criminal
| anarchist. Attorney General Palmer
told a House committee today that
| in dealing with attempts OF the gov
| ernment to rid the country of danger
Gus aliens Mr.. Post had employed
| self and autocratlc substitu-
| tion of his own mistaken personal
viewpoint for the obligations of the
| public law"
Mr.. Palmer was testifying before
| the rules committee which is fnvesti-
eating the official conduct of Mr.. Post
| in deportation proceedings.
Dictated by Personal Views.
| 1T has become perfectly apparent"
| the Attorney General said, that Mr..
Posts course in all the deportation
proceedings has been dictated by his
| own personal view that the deporta-
| tion law is wrong. rather than by any
| desire or intention to carry out the
| law as enacted by the Congress. BY
his seif-willed and autocrattc s0bsti-
| tuition of his mistaken personal view
| point for the obligation d public
| law; by his habitually tender solici-
| tude for social revolutionistS, and per
| verted sympathy for the criminal
anarchists of the country. he has con-
sistently deprived the people OF tneir
! day in court in the enforcement oil
| law of vital Importance to their peace
and safety. By his wholesale jail de-
liveries and his release of even self
| confessed anarchists of the worst
| tyne, he has utterly nullihed the pur-
pose of the Congress in passing the
large amongst the people the very
public enemies whom it was the de-
sire and intention of the Congress to
| be rid Of.
SAYS Warrants Were Cancelled.
He has defied the rules Of evidence
as laid down by our most responsible
courts has Cancelled hundreds OF legal
warrants issued by his department en-.
ltirely without justification apd In face
of the facts. has flouted the judgment
| of a committee of the Senate which has
investigated one of the cases before
him. has shown constant favors to vio-
lators of the law and their attorneys.
refusing even common courtesy to the
Department of Justice, which is charged
with the duty of enforcing the laws. and.
| in order to distract public attention
from his obvious failure to perform his
own duty. has showered upon the De-
partment OF Justice mass OF charges
of misconduct in the hope that he could
put this law enforcing department OF
| the government on the defensive IN the
place of those criminal enemies OF the
country from whose activities our de-
rartment has sought to protect the gov
ernment and the people"
Mr.. Palmer said he had hoped 1T
might never be necessary to indulge IN
any criticism Of another government OIL
cial." but that Outrageous and uncon-
scionable falsehoods" laid before the
tcommittee by Mr.. Post required definite
answers.
1T is not surprising" he added. that
Mr. Post, when the opportunity has
presented itself in an Official way to
render a service to those who advocate
force and violence, should employ it to
the limit. He has always been sympa-
thetic with that sort Of thing"
shows Records Of Department.
In answering Mr.. Posts statements
| that he had cancelled deportation war
| rants "only where facts warranted such
action" Mr.. Palmer cited numerous in
| dividual cases, which he claimed placed
| the assistant secretary in a position of
| passive tolerance and encouragement
Of bolshevik literature and propaganda.
He also submitted records OF the depart
ment showing the particular persons ac-
lively identified with the spread OF the
doctrine of the dictatorship of the prole-
tariat Mr.. Post continued to cancel the
| warrants, Mr.. Palmer said, 'even after
we had produced evidence showing the
individual to have been a member Of tho
communist party. which the Secretary
of Labor had held to be unlawful"
Mr.. Palmer declared that Mr.. Post
j had become a factor in the revolution
ary plan," but he credited the assistant
secretary with having been led ipto II
| ''unconsciously." He said, however. that
| the attitude in which he had pictured
the Labor Department official was one
| which antedated Mr.. Posts service in
| the government. Here he quoted from
| editorials written by Mr.. Post, when he
was editor of The Public. magazine
which the Attorney General called very
radical"
While the witness believed that Mr..
Posts encouragement" of the radical
| movement had served to strengthen II
| materially, he did not believe the
| red" doctrine ever would gain SUM-
cient foothold to overturn this gov
ernment. But he warned it was
menace which must be watched
| closely.
Answers SPECIFIC Charges.
The specific charges made before
| swered by the Attorney General in
detail.
Regarding Mr. Posts assertion that
with all of these sweeping raids. only
three pistols have been found" Mr..
Palmer declared that while the num-
ber Of guns found in no way indicated
the potential danger of the aliens. de-
partment agents not only found
"scores OF them. but bombs and other
implements Of destruction as web" He
named dozen cities in which. he
said, the raids had disclosed prepara-
tions of the aliens to employ both
guns and bombs. and supported the
statement with afidavits Of justice
agents who made the raids.
Replies to His Critics.
The Attorney General offered as
proof Of his statement that the men
arrested were aware of the purposes
of their organization the membership
application OF the communist party.
in which the applicant agreed to "en-
gage actively" In its work and sub
scribe to the tactics OF the commu-
mist international" This. he declar-
ed, had pledged itself and its MEM
bers to a worldwide revolution by
force.
Charges by Jackson H. Raiston.
counsel for Mr.. Post. that the Depart
ment of Justice had provocateur
agents in service who were engaged
in forming new communist local or
ganizations against which raids could
be directed were characterized by the
Attorney General AZ deliberate and
that some Of the department agents
IN order to gain confidential infor-
nation. had joinel outlawed organi-
xationa buf he chs liam rad sanvhAdy