Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-05
REDS PLAN FIGHT
ON DEPORTATION
.veinstein, Chief Of Staff Of
Soviet Ambassador"
Under Arrest
BIG "SLUSH" FUND RAISED
BY the Associated Press

have all machinery set for fighting des
perately against deportation, it was
announced today at tho Department OF
Justice
Lawyers have been engaged in prac
fically every city whore raids were made
and officials predicted they would take
advantage of every tchcnicasitv until
their clients actually were aboard vessels
bound for their native lands.
Gregory Weinstciu. chief OF staff FOR
Ludwig c. A. X Martens. self-styled
B ambassador to the United States oE the
Russian soviet republic. was arrested on
deportation warrant at New York
today by agents of the Department of
Justice. Weinsten is the most inhuen
tial Russian communist. next to Mar
4 tens, in America,
Close Friend of TrOtsl>y
Weinstein was taken into custody at
the Russian soviet embassy, where
he was head of the diplomatic depart
,nent. An exile from Siberia. he ar
lived in America with Leon TrOtSky.
Russian soviet minister Of war, few
years ago. and is his close personal
friend He was formerly editor of the
Novy Mir. the organ of the Russian :" %
cialist federation.
Assistant Attorney General Garvan
today gave Instructions TO speed the
i work of completing the chain of evt-
dencc with which he hopes to make
deportations certain.
VI Mr.. Garvan said that while the COY
ernment believed proof OF membership
In either of the Communist Urgauiza-
tions to be sufficient basis for denorta-
tion, there must be considered til" 'jk"-
lihood that many OF the persons held
might attcmDt to show they rcnouu"ed
their affiliations prior TO the govern .
ment's declaration that the entire alien
Reipbership of the Communist and Com
rnnfiist Labor parties were dcpo"tabic
subjects.
Habeas corpus proceedings will be
employed in majority of the eases,
Mr.. Garvan believed. He pointed out,
that in times past the department has
met with habeas corpus proceedings as
many as five times before its agents sue
ceeded in getting an individual case
finally closed
Reds Have Siush Fund
Privileges accorded the radicals under
present laws with respect to bait also
complicates the department work. Of
ficials said Persons held on such
charges as have been filed against those
taken into custody in these raids may
gain freedom on $1,000 bond. But the
two parties which the department is at
tempting to diSperSe, are known to
have ''slush fund" Mr.. Garyan de-
clnred. and large amounts of this have
been made available for legal defense
and bail.
Reports of more arrests dribblrd into
the department today. These showed
that plans of the dopartmeut to round
up the ringleaders of the two orgauiza
tions We're continuing unabated. Mr..
Caravan said. -.
When the raids began federal agents
were armed with 1000 warrants. Not
all of these have been served. but from
seven cities requests came today for ad
ditional warrants. Mr.. Garvau said
every agent from whom reports have
been received in the last fortr eight
hours declared he would serve all war
rants assigned to him.
May Deport 5000
Nearly 30G0 of those arrested have
been held for deportation proceeding,
and because of the congestion now at
Ellis Island, all of them cannot be con
centrated there. At the Bureau of In
migration il was said that if army and
navy branches at the island were re-
moved there would be ample room to
concentrate all of the alien radicals who
might be deported.
Immigration officials would not dis =
cuss reports that they would ask the
War Department for the use of either
Camps Mills or Upton, y. Y. as a
concentration camp.
Congress had before it today the re-
q quest of Attorney General Palmer that
1t take prompt action on bill pro-
posed by him several months ago ana
n designed to enable the government TO
Ideal with citizens found TO be engaged
In .aH orti iN-is ips No, l. ...l
eral law under which the 'parIor
Bolshevists can be dealt with Hun
dreds of citizens were taken in the
raids Friday aud Saturday and these
must be turned over to the state au-
thorities for trial.
New York. Jan. 5.--OBy \. P.)-
Continuation of the raids on commun
lists was expected here today About 600
warrants remained to be served. At
least fifty eight local branches of the
communist and communist labor parties
which have not been raidcd are said 10
be in existence in Greater New York
Immigration officials here said today
they doubted whether Reds would be-
sent 10 concentration camp. They
asserted Ellis Island was large enough
TO accommodate all probable dpportccs
as we'll as the great influX of immigra
|, tion il the force is increased.
A concentration camp would mean
\ almost a duplication of the present
force Besides guards, natrons and
clerks, a camp would need a force OF
immigration inspectors to conduct de-
portation proceedings,
The Reds at the island today num-
hered about so. all but eight of whom
were arrested in raids in New York
and New Jersey Friday night.
Fifty three radicals from various
parts of Connecticut were taken
to Hartford in two special coaches ou n
train from Waterbury, Mrs. Mary
NfuroH. thirty years old, Of Naugutuck.
was escorted TO the police station at
Hartford. while her husband. Michael.
Was taken TO Jail.
Chicago. Jan. 5.-( by \. P.J-
More than 100 alleged radicals arrested
ia the New NcaSs raids by state aud
city authorities today were arraigued
ia criminal court. and a special grand
juf'y began untanGling the masses of
evidence Sei2rd at hcadluurtcrs and
meeting places or obtained in the last
live months.
Agents of the federal Department Of
Justice spent the day preparing evidence
for submission tomorrow nj the bearings
of naI Red aliens held for deportation.
Officers today still sought for alleged
( Reds for whom warrquts were issued.
Milliam u. Haywood. secretary Of
the Industrial Workers of the World.
untfer sentence TO federal prison, and