Bisbee daily review., 1920-12-12
NINETY PER GENT IF RhDICAL|sM
 IN NATION LAUNCHED BY ALIENS
 SAYS ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER

WASHINGTON, Dec. II. The
 campaign against the high cost oi
 living, efforts to break up trusts and
 combinations in Restraint of trade
 and the governments fight on radi
 calism are reviewed by Attorney
 General Palmer in his annual report
 sent today to Congress.
 In discussion of the radical prob
 lem, Palmer discloses that the Iie-
 partment of Justice has developed a
 card index system, containing more
 than 100000 cards, giving detailed
 data on the activities of ultra-radi-
 calls and their organizations as well as a compleSe library of reference on the general radical movement. | Ninety per cent of the communist and anarchistic agitation during the last year, the attorney general says, is traceable to aliens. This aGita- ton, l,e adds. is not confined to the so-called economic evils" but has been directed also toward the stir ring up of racial prejudice. One of the fertile fields, he says, is among the negroes who "havh been appeal ed to directly for support in the movement to overthrow the govern ment of the United States"
 The foreign language press has Jsen particularly noticeable for its strong ultraradical leanings," the at i torney general says He declares that the spread of radical doctrines has been aided" in 26 or more for eign language newspapers in the United States.
 The results of the January raids on the Communist and Communist | Labor party meetings, Palmer says, caused a marked temporary cessa- tion" in radical activities here. Meet ings of the communist and anarchis- tic groups were suspended and were followed later by the declaration of tis American delegate to the Third Internationale at Amsterdam that that January raids had destroyed the hopes Of the communists in America.
 Trusts Are Fought
 Palmer recites the legislative pro. gram laid before Congress at it's last session in which he said existing laws did not permit the government to carry on the sort of prosecution required in the case of some of the radical groups, notably the Industri- al Workers of the World whose ac-
 
 able to touch in most instances.
 Turning to law enforcement acti- l vities. the attorney general says the ( government collected approximately { S4,532,O00 in fines and judgments in i he last year. Of this, $2,452. 900 t came from fines in criminal prosecu- i ions while the remainder was col. { ected in civil proceedings. s TWentV-aipht aDti-frust .oro.. a~o | ! saIiaisas-i4--a Ter the country and the Supreme Court of the United States. Frank <. Nebeker, assistant to the attor ley general, in his special report on c he subject, says that prosecution of e hese cases is proceeding as rapidly ( IS the machinery of the courts hay { ng jurisdiction can be moved. Six ( cen cases against alleged trusts or I in restraint of trade I nave been institu'ed in the last : weive months and twelve others ( rave been disnosed of by final court i action, MT. Nebeker says. The report shows that in it's cam | Daign to lower living costs. the de- Dartment brought a total of 2,016 le- gal actions under the Lever Act. Of these, 1.049 were on direct charges 0f profiteering. Other actions in cluded prosecutions under the pro visions against hoarding, manipula- ton of food stocks. conspiracies, etc. Indictments were drawn in I'll in stances, the report says, and to date 99 sentences have bden imposed.
 Palmer explains that the depart ments work, especially in connec-