New-York tribune., 1920-01-05
''Reds'7 to Ask
FreedOm m on
Habeas ,Writs
POI Prisoners at Island
Will Act in Concert To.
day; More Raids Are
Coming, Flynn Predicts

The POL aliens, including twenty
women, taken in the government
raids on the headquarters of the Com
munist and the Communist Labor
parties last Friday night and now held
at Ellis Island as liable to deportation
will seek their liberty to-day through
habeas corpus proceedings.
At the same time, the prisoners, to-
gether with about 2,400 others seized
in other parts of the country, will
try to gain temporary freedom by fur
nishing bail.
Secretary of Labor Wilson has ad-
vised that each prisoner be released on
$1,000 bail, pending the outcome of his
case. 1t was predicted that before the
middle of the week more than half
of the Reds" would be released.
More Raids Promised
Other developments yesterday were
William j. Flynn, chief of the De-
partment Of Justices bureau of in
vestigation, who conducted Friday
nights raids, declared that the work
of rounding up radicals in New York,
New Jersey and elsewhere was mot
anywhere near finished" More activ-
ity of the bureaus agents is to be ex-
pected this week, it was said.
Despite the protest of Byron II. Uhl,
Acting Commissioner Of immigration
that the dormitories at Ellis Island are
overcrowded with immigrants awaitinc
admittance into this country and aliens
awaiting to be deported, moro aliens
already ordered deported are expected
to-day or tomorrow. Mr.. Uhi said $50
persons were being held at the island
pending deportation proceedings.
Members of the House Committee on
immigration, which about two months
ago started an investigation Of condi-
tions at Ellis Island, said thcy would
resume their hearings in New York
Thursday. They expect to inquire into
complaints that deportees are being
dumped" into New York and released
on bail here after being transported
across the country at the governments
expense.
Martens in Washington
The Russian Soviet Bureau, 40 West
Fortieth Street, announced that Ludwig
c. A. X. Martens, head Of the bureau,
WHO cIuueu LUZ luVeStiBaCtoIl Dy the
Lusk legislative committee, had gone to
Washington, where he will appear be-
fore the Senate Committee CT Foreign
Relations probably tomorrow to testify
concerning Holshevik propaganda.
Organized effort to raise a fund to
fight the governments cases and to
furnish bail has been started by groups
Of radicals not affected by the raids.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. head of the
Workers Defense Union, East
Fifteenth Street, announced that relief
for the aliens is being collected.
Charles Recht and two other at
for habeas corpus writs. Mr.. Recht
yesterday issued statement calling
on the government to permit aliens
to leave the country Of their own
accofd instead of sending them to
Ellis Island.
Evidence that the Young Peoples
Socialist League, which broke away
from the Socialist party, has adopted
the program for which the Communists
are being prosecuted, was obtained by
the Lusk Committee in its recent in
vestigation at Rochester, according to
Samuel A. Berger, Deputy Attorney
General.
Overthrow Is Approved
Mr.. Berger declared yesterday that
the Socialist League, at a session held
in Rochester week ago, voted in favor
of adopting the manifesto of the Com
munist international Convention now
being held at Moscow. The manifesto
calls for the overthrow by the workers
of all organized government and the
establishment Of government by the
proletariat.
every member of the i. P. S. l.. is
thus made just as liable to prosecu-
ton under the state anti-anarchy law
as are the members of the Communist
party" said Mr.. Berger.
Mr.. Berger said that the committees
raids Saturday night on the printing
establishments Of four radical news
papers had disclosed the source Of An
nrchist publications. At East Third
Street we're found the printing forms
and published sheets Of Bread ana