Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-06-01
PALMER CALLS
POST ADANGER
TO u. S. SAFETY
Says Assistant Labor Secre-
tary Tries to Block De-
pOrtation Laws.
BRANDS STORY FALSE

NASHlNGION. June 1.-By MS
wholesale jail deliveries and release or
self-confessed anarchists Of the worst
ype' Assistant Secretary of Labor Post
is seeking to block enforcement of de-
nOrtation law and to bring Into pub
lie disrepute" law officers of the govern
ment, Attorney General Palmer today
charged before the house rules commit
tee.
Palmer's statement was in answer to
Posts recent testimony before the COM
mittee during hearings on a resolution
OF Representative Hoch, Kansas, which
would start impeachment proceedings
against the labor Official.
Post claimed Palmer had mistreated
aliens held for deportation ard violated
the laws regarding them.
Similar charges were made by the
National Popular Government league
The Palmer statement revealed a bitter
strife between the two departments over
the deportation question.
Palmer declared red" agitators" were
seeking to minimize their activities so
they could proceed unmolested.
The I. w. ". are seeking to merge the
railroad brotherhoods into "one big
union he said
FORTY EXAMPLES OF
VIOLATIONS CITED.
Forty examples in which Palmer
claimed Post had violated the deportation
laws were cited by Palmer. who said
Posts charges were Outrageous and un-
considerable falsehoods."
Declaring Post believed the deportation
law wrong, Palmer said:
by his self willed and autocratic sub
Sutution Of his mistaken personal view
min 1aU F.t hnfs
for social reyolutionists and perverted
sympathy for The anarchists Of the coun
Try, he has consistently deprived the peo-
pie Of their day In court In the enforce
ment Of law that IS Of vital Importance
70 their peace and safety"
Palmer referred 10 writings OF Post in
lSOS In which he is alleged 10 have
praised Emme Goldman and LuGoyico
Caminita, noted anarchists, Palmer said
Palmer mentioned the cases Of Paul
Burton, Detroit; Earnest Knoepfel. st.
Iaul; Pietro Baldersetto and serafno
Graudi, Paterson, y. j.. Franz Widmer.
Albert Guabello, Tom Miliouseke, Nil
Waukee; Frank Jaworski, Hartford.
Conn; Nike Kriston and Anrecz Kramec
Of Buffalo.
SAID HE REVERSED
MANY DECISIONS.
In hundreds of ca ses similar to the
above. warrants have been cancelled, de-
spite clear evidence Of membership In the
communist party, which Wilson. secre-
tary OF labor. decided was a deportabl
o1ense." said Palmer.
Answering charges of Post that only
three small pistols were found In the big
radical raids, the attorney general said
eighteen rlaes and bombs were found at
Newark. " J. three guns IN Providence
L. l.; three In Philadelphia five guns
and bombs ia Hartford :; five guns cech
In Chicago and Cleveland; one IN Toledo
and other such equipment in Buffalo ana
Los Angeles
Palmer denied he had demanded ex-
cessive bail In deportation cases.
He denounced Post for releasing Lud.
wig c. A. X. Martens into the custody
Of his attorney.
The attorney general revealed that
Ferdinand Peterson. an agent Of Martens
had worked himself into the confidence Of
the department OF justice and was en-
ployed as r government agent for three
months until his identity was discov-
cred
Peterson's government reports were re-
viewed by Martens secretary, Palmer
said.