Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-15
ORDERS
RIGID TREATMENT
Of GUILTY ALIENS
Federal Proceedings Must Be
PainstakingIy Fair, I'M
preston Given.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

President Wilson has asked both
the Department Of Justice and the
Department of Labor to inquire close
ly into the relationship between So
called radicals" and Communism
and the industrial disturbances which
have been cropping out Of late
throughout the country.
The President gave the impression
ernment should proceed reientlessly
against disturbers Of Industrial peace
and deport aliens found guilty thSfs41
he wanted the judicial process 70 b
painstakingly fair.
Mr. Wilson's first cabinet meeting
dinarily interesting. The President
sat behind q mahogany desk in the
upper apartments Of the White House.
It Is a room used by him as q study.
There's q tablet on the wall which
recalls that President Lincoln held
his civil war sessions with the cab
met In the same room.
Mr.. Wilson sat with his back to the
light. which streamed in from the
south portico. Members Of the cabi-
net shook hands with him as he sat at
his desk. To each he had q pleasant
word Of greeting. Chairs were brought
from adjoining rooms. and. as the
room is rather spacious. the cabinet
members moved up close to the desk
in semi-circular array. Nobody
smoked.
The President opened the meeting
with brief statement Of the apparent
ly critical situation in which the coun-
try had been plunged by the strike Of
railway employees. and said he wanted
the benefit of the counsel and advice
Of the cabinet.
Mr. Palmer's Statemeat.
Attorney General Palmer, who had
brought a portfolio of papers to the
meeting. Immediately responded with
an analysis of the underlying currents
Of misunderstanding which had been in
jected into Industrial troubles by
and other malcontents. He said that
wherever a strike existed or was
threatened these disturbing elements
promptly availed themselves Of the op-
portunity to stir up more trouble. He
told of the policy which his depart
aliens and bringing the cases to the
attention OF the Department Of Labor
for deportation.
A rather pointed colloquy occurred
on the subject of the law involved in
deportations and President Wilson
asked many questions. When the At
torney General had concluded the
President turned to Secretary William
B. Wilson and asked for the view
point of the Department of Labor,
which Is charged entirely with the
enforcement of the deportation laws.
There had been during the discus
sion a plain intimation that the De-
partment Of Justice was not of the
same opinion as the Department of
Labor in handling deportation cases
This fundamental difference has long
been known and involves really an at
titude of mind. The Department of
Justice views the radicals as per-
sons of whom short shrift should be
made. 1t contends that the procedure
with reference to deportation is pure
ly administrative and not criminal
and that all the Department of Labor
needs to do is to be satisfied by the
Department Of Justice Investigation
that a man comes within the meaning
of the deportation laws and should be
deported.
On the other hand. the Department
of Labor insists that while the pro-
cedure may be administrative. 1t is as