Evening star., 1935-03-13
u. S. Plans Hearing on Move
To Deport John Strachey as Red
Noted English Writer and
'PeddIer of Marxism'
Must Leave.
British Embassy Has No
Information on Critic
OF. Capitalism.

BY the Associated Press.
Labor Department officials said to-
day deportation hearing probably
would be held tomorrow In Chicago
for John Strachey, British writer and
lecturer, who was arrested there last
night charged with being an alien
Communist.
The proceedings will be held before
the Chicago immigrant inspector. His
findings will be forwarded to the
Board of Review In Washington. II
the board decides Strachey is guilty,
1t will order his deportation, for which
no court action is necessary.
Visa Still Good.
Strachey still has four months re-
naming under his visitors visa to the
United States.
Moving today to deport Strachey,
member of a famous British family,
the Government enunciated the prin-
ciple that any alien who advocates the
principles Of Communism must be ex-
PEELED from the country.
While denying that the arrest was
the beginning of a concerted drive
against radicals. the Labor Department
held that court decisions made il
mandatory to ieport alien Communists
or foreigners who advocate Com
muniSm.
The order for the arrest of the noted
interpreter Of MarXisn came at q time
when his books-in which he pictures
world facing the alternatives of bar
barism or Communism-were being
sold widely throughout the country
Book store clerks here said they were
going fast. Both THE Nature OF
Capitalist Crisis" and a previous work
THE Coming Struggle for Power
have been reviewed widely in radical
publications and in what Communists
term the ''capitalistic press"
Lectures In u. s.
The young writer, who is a nephew
Of the late Lytton Strachey, biogra-
pher, and son of the late John St
Ioe Strachey, long time conservative
editor of the London Spectator, has
been writing for tho New Masses and
other publications as well as lectur-
ing in the United States.
I'm one Of these publications, said
statement issued by Immigration
Commissioner D. w. MacCormack, "he
uses the term We Communists and
in another refers IL himself as a Com
munist drummer In these words:
"A Communist drummer, for that
Is what am at the moment, peddling
Marxism instead OF pink pills He
concludes this article with the state
ment, The Communist party has i'm
mense opportunities in front of it: but
it will need the most consummate
political skill to seize its opportunities
to the full"
MacCormack held these statements
were OBVIOUSLY Inconsistent" with
Strachey's negative replies TO immi-
grafton authorities who asked him
whether he advocated or belle 1ed in
the overthrow of the United States
Government by force.
Inconsistency Seen.
"Had ne given frank answers to the
questions put to him and disclosed his
political views at the consulate in
London 0r on his arrival at New
York." MacCormack said. the sltua-
ton which he has now brought about
could have been averted"
The British Embassy, so far as was
known, had made no immediate move
in the case today. Inquiries there
last night brought the reply that there
was no information on the case
Strachey las attacked both Fasclsm
and the capitalist economists" and
has criticized the New Deal He holds
that the aim of the Roosevelt ad-
ministra.ion is to restore profits and
that 1t is doing so through a process
which raises prices faster than wages.
Discussing the views Of capitals"
economists in The Nature of Capt.
talist Crisis" he contends they went
wrong by discarding the labor theory
of value" held by Ricardo and other
economists of the old classical school.
Karl Marx stuck to and developed this
theory-which declares that it is labor
alone which gives value to commodi-
ties and that the value is determined
by the amount of socially necessary"
labor embodied in the commodities.
Strachey contends the hope Of the
world lies in production for use rather
than for profits.
MacCormack's statement said the
author had obtained visitors visa at
the American consulate generals ONCE
in London on December 6, last. He
arrived in New York December rs, the
commissioner added.
MacCormack said he had received
complaints leading to an investigation
Of his activities and his writings In
this country.