Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-01-06
ACTION TODAY To
DEPORT ''REDS"
FROM COUNTRY
Hearings Are Started in New
York for Alleged Radicals
AWAIT FIRST RESULTS
Much Depends Upon Success
Of First "Soviet Ark" Sent
From Our Shores
lu Tie .Associotnd Press.


NEW YORK, Jan. 6.--Deportation
hearings for 449 radicals held at Ellis
Island, as a result of last weeks raids,
commenced today. Fifty more taken
at Trenton, N. j., will be brought to
the Island before nightfall. Fourteen
men We're held today at police head
quarters. A number of others ar
rested during the night We're released
after being questioned.
An order for commitment to jail
| of DIR. Michael Misleg, treasurer of
the Russian Radical paper Novy Mir,
on which Trotsky worked before go
| ing to Soviet Russia to become min
lister of war. was prepared today by
deputy Attorney General Berger.
| Misleg was treasurer of tho Rus
sian Socialist Federation which he tes-
| titled before a joint legislative commit
| teen investigating seditious activities,
was engaged in spreading Bolshevist
propaganda throughout the United
States by It's 1000 members.
More than 10000 alien enemies in
| the communist party OF New York
| state alone are openly organized for
| overthrow of the government by force
and violence under the direction of
| Bolshevist leaders in Russia. Senator
| Fl. Clayton r. Lusk, chairman of the
Joint Legislative Committee, investi-
eating seditious activities, declared
| communist labor party and other rev.
olutionary organiza tions working to
| accomplish same ends as we'll as many
| other bodies which agree with their
principles and encourage their actiV-
| tiles without participating openly in
| them, he said.
Await News from Soviet Ark
! WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.--No further
deportation of radical aliens will be
undertaken until the experiment with
1.-THE transport Buford, the first soviet
ark" is completed, it was said today
| by Anthony Caminetti, commissioner
general of emigration. The Buford
now Is en- route to Northern Europe
with 249 radical aliens destined for
Russia. but whether she will be per-
mitted to land her passengers has not
lyet been determined. 1t is not posi-
BILE for the ship to go to soviet Rus
sia and if the radicals are sent into
that country they must be trans
ported across one of the adjacent
countries.
The nearly 5000 radical aliens
taken in the raids of the last few days
Twill be tried by the department OF
labor in the districts in which they
were arrested and those ordered de-
ported will be sent to New York.
| Mr.. Caminetti said that should ne
cessity require the use of additional
space at New York or in the district
Ito house the radicals awaiting depor-
itation. steps will be taken to secure
camps or other facilities from the war
or other departments that might have
suitable accommodations. He added,
however, that as additional stations
would cause extra expense he beueNed
lcongress would grant the money for
the reopening of Ellis Island station
in its entirety so that al the aliens
could be housed there.
Still Seek Radicals.
! WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Federal
! agents are continuing to COMP the
tcountry for radicals who are known to
! champion a movement to overthrow
the government With means of es-
cape shut off by a close watch Of the
Mexican and Canadian borders, where
some of the radicals were reported
headed in an effort to evade the drag
net spread over the country to entrap
members of the Communist and
Communist Labor parties. the arrest
of some of the prominent Radical
leaders were expected momentarily
The Department of Justice has
called upon congress for support in
the campaign to rid the nation or
syndicaliSm, by providing approprla-
tions to meet the legal battle when
is considered inevitable when the
! government starts into the hnaI Stages
of deportation proceedings.
1t was declared that Radicals are
supported by big "slush" fund and
an array of legal talent which must
be overcome if the governments cam
paign is to bear fruit.
The War Department has agreed to
Incorporate In furnishing Camp Upton
as a detention camp to relieve the
Icongestion at Ellis Island and another
camp probably will be established In
the Middle West to quarter the Radi-
Gals until arrangements are made to
send a small feet of soviet arks'
across the seas
No request for the use of camps or
soldiers to handle the aliens arrested
in recent raids has been made to the
| War Department by the Department
of Labor. Anthony Caminetu, COM
missioner general of immigration,
| declared today. He added that if
congress would provide . necessary
fund Ellis Island could be reopened
to its full capacity and ali of the
aliens concentrated there as their
deportation was ordered.
The radicals will be tried In the
district in which they were arrested
and then sent to New York for de-
portation. Mr.. Caminetti said