The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-06-11

and assault have been committed by
agents of Attorney General Palmer IN
the course of CONTINUED violation Of
the Constitution and breaking of laws
by the Department of Justice, ae.
eording to damning indictment, back
ed by affidavits and photographs,
made public here by committee fo
members of the American
bar.
This sensational allegation of per-
sistent criminality among the highest
law officers of the government is
addressed "To The American People"
and is called "Report Upon Illegal
Practices by The United States Depart
ment of Justice" 1t is a report to
the National Popular Government
League and is signed by the following
lawyers:
2. Chafee, Jr., Cambridge, Mass.
Professor of Law, Harvard Law
School.
Felix Frankfurter, New York,
Harvard Law School.
Prof. Ernst Freund, Chicago, III.
Prof. of Jurisprudence and Public
Law, Unive. of Chicago,-Author
of "Standards of American Legi.
slation," etc.
Swinburne Hale, New York,
Attorney.at-Law. Late Captain Nil.
litary Intelligence Division, Gener.
al Staff, U. S. S.
Alfred Niles, Baltimore, Nd
Late Judge of the District Court.
Attoney.at-Law.
Jackson H. Ralston, Washington, d.
C.-Attorney-at.Law. Member Amer.
lean Bar Association.
Roscoe Pound, Boston, Mass
Dean of the Law School, Harvard
University.
David Wallerstein, Philadelphia, Pa.
Attorney.at.Law; Member Amer.
lean Bar Association.
Frank P. Walsh, New York and
Kansas City.-Attorney .at-Law.
Tyrell Williams, st. Louis, Mo
Dean of the Law School, Washing.
ton University.
Francis Fisher Kane, Philadelphia, Pa.
Attorney.atLaw, U. s. District At.
torney, resigned.
Preliminary to more than fifty print
cd pages of exhibits to prove their
charge, the lawyers made the following
statement:
"TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE:
For more than six months we, the
undersigned lawyers, whose sworn duty
It is to uphold the Constitution and
Laws of the United States, have seen
with growing apprehension the con
tinued violation of that Constitution and
breaking Of those Laws by the Depart.
ment of Justice of the United States
government.
"Under the guisc of campaign for
the suppression of radical activities,
the office of the Attorney General,
acting by its local agents throughout
the country, and giving express in.
Structions from Washington, has com.
nitted continual illegal acts. Whole
sale arrests both of aliens and citizens
have been made without warrant or
any process of law; men and women
have been jailed and held incomunicado
witt out access of friends or counsel:
homes have been entered without
seareh-warrant and property seized
and removed; other property has been
wantonly destroyed; workingmen and
workingwomen suspected of radical
views have been shamefully abused and
maltreated. Agents Of the Department
Of Justice have been introduced into
radical organizations for the purpose
of informing upon their members OF
melting them to activities; these
agents have been instructed from Wash
ington to arrange meetings upon GER
tain dates 70 rthe express object Of
facilitating wholesale raids and ar
rests. In support of these illegal acts
and to create sentiment in its favor
the Department Of Justice has also
constituted itself propaganda bureau
and has sent to newspapers and mag
aaines of this country quantities Of
material designed to excite publ,
opinion against radicals, all ut the ex
rcnse Of the government and outsid,
the scope of the Attorney General
duties.
"Wc make no argument in favor o
any radical doctrine as such, whethe
Socialist, Communist or Anarchist NJ
one Of us belongs to any of thes
schools of thought. Nor do we nov
raise any question as to the Constitu
tutiOna! protection of free speech an
n free press. We are concerned solel
with bringing to the attention of th
American people the utterly illegl
acts which have been committed b
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