New-York tribune., 1920-01-06
Gregory Weinstein, So
Wet Chief. and Victor
Vollodin, 'Novy Mir
Treasurer, Are Seized
Policemen Assist
In Big Roundup
Raiders Use Army Trucks
in Widespread Seasch
Aimed at Individ0aIs

Another roundup Of members Of
the Communist party was begun last
night BY Department of Justice
agents in this city. The prospective
exiles are to be concentrated at Camp
Upton, which is to be turned over TO
the Department of Labor by the
War Department.
The Federal agents directed the
activities of swarm of policemen
in plain clothes. Each Department
of Justice man took his particular
squad of policemen to some pre-
viously designated secret meeting
place of the Communists and ar
rested every one found there.
Some Taken at Home
Several hundred deportation war.
rants were in the hands Of the New
York raiders, and it was expected
that before they had concluded their
nights work two hundred habitues
Of radical meeting places would be
taken into custody for examination.
The raiders set out in four army
motor trucks and a dozen army cars.
They served some of the warrants at
the homes of those they sought.
All Of the suspected "Reds~ arrested
in New York last night were taken
to the Offices of the bureau Of inyest;-
cation of the Department Of Justice
on the fourteenth floor Of the build
Ing at Is Park Row. After they had
been questioned and searched IL was
planned to send to Ellis Island any
who failed to establish immediate and
convincing proof Of citizenship.
The suspects will be held there IN
company with 441 radicals who were
shared in New York and New JERSEY
during the nationwide raids conducted
last Friday night.
The first man arrested Yesterday was
Gregory Wenstein, who is, known here
as the "chief Of staff" Of Ludwig c.
A. X. Martens, self-styled Ambassador
to the United States from the Russian
Soviet Republic.
Friend of Leon Trotzky
Weinstein is friend of Leon
Trotzky and was an associate editor Of
"Novy Mir" Russian language news
paper which preached Bolsheyik IDEAS.
when Trotzky worked there and lived
-, IL
Braunstein.
Weinstein was served with deporta~
tion warrant yesterday morning as he
entered the building in 40 West For
tieth Street, in which are located the
Offices Of the Russian Soviet bureau
conducted by Martens. Weinstein re
signed from the staff OF "Novy Mir"
in the early part Of 1919 20 become
chancellor in the bureau.
At the Park Row Offices OF the De-
partmcnt of Justice Weinstein refused
TO talk and was taken immediately TO
Ellis Island.
The warrant served on Weinstesn wss
one of the zoo or more that the Fed
eral agents planned TO serve last night,
but in the hope that news Of his arrest
would hull suspicious of big raid u
was decided to arrest him al the Rus
sian Soviet bureau office.
Vollodin Sent TO Island
The second warrant of the lot was
served with even less difficulty. Victor
Vollodin. of s03 East 13etn Street, nov
treasurer and formerly manager Of
"No~y Mir" walked into the Department
of Justice Offices late yesterday after
noon to make inquiries about Vein
stein. He laid a card on the Gesk Of
the clerk in the reception room, and
h forl .
officies ne was accompanied by sn op-
erative, who placed Vollodin under ar
rest.
When the little ferry steamer made
its last regular trip through the ice
foes that choke the hafbor to Ellis
Island Vollodin was aboard.
Oscar Tyverowsky, executive secre-
tary Of the Communist party in this
state, was one Of those arrested. and
when Martin j. Davis. special agent of
the Department Of Justice, and Detec-
tives Hupmann and Greindski entered
Chief Flynn's Office Flynn shook hands
heartily with each of the detectives.
That's the boy we've been waiting
for!" exclaimed Flynn.
Agents of the Department Of Justice
have been hunting for Tyverowsky for
weeks. He WAS found last night in a
room at 1857 Fulton Avenue, The
the name of Smith. The detectives
said that when they knocked on nc
door and called for Tyverowsky. their
prisoner came out rs swiIt,y IS
cuckoo out of clock and closing the
door behind him said: HUSH ] don't
want my wife to know my name is
Tyverowsky."
Mrs. Brophy Arrested
The first prisoner brought to the of
fice Of the Department OF Justice last
night was Mrs. John Brophy, of ~
West Twelfth STREET, one of those who
furnished part of the $4,000 bail de-
! manded for Jim Larkin following his
indictment on = charge of criminal
! anarchy. Shcg was led in protesting
violently. She satisfied the authorities
that she was An American citizen and
| was released
As soon as the Rrresting officers had
been taken 70 their destinations In