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Show 'BED' SHE iMTERRUPTS 1. 5.1 ROBE Radicals at Ellis Island Refuse to Attend Hearing Hear-ing by House Committee, Commit-tee, Ending Sessions. Unusual Incident Marks Investigation; Undesirable Undesir-able Aliens Flout Government's Gov-ernment's Authority. NBW YORK. Nov. Il.-Firty. nine radical... radi-cal... tract on sirike ng-ulrmt LttaildlD ineir deportation bMriagi at Kills lal.uid td iv and forced the hearings to ba ua-pended. ua-pended. despite th presence of the house Immlrrailon committee which la inve8tlg.r the deportation problem. They struck to have an Iron barrier removed re-moved when they have visitor. The committee adv.sed l ommlaaioner Byron II. Uhl to use force. If necessary, to compel tho next men scheduled for hearing to attend, holding he had sufficient suf-ficient authority under the Interpretation Interpreta-tion of the law by the fnlted statea mpre.-ne court. The commissioner sent to the detention cage for .Mcolai Kuru-paut. Kuru-paut. who was arrested in a recent raid in Newark. W, j. There was no response from the cage and nobody at the Island knew which one of the men In the pen was Kuropa.a. The radicals continued to play handball and mandolins and a few aanB the 'Internationale," while the Inspector In-spector In charge of the law division of the immigration service. Augustus P. Shell, returned empty-handed to report lo Mr. L'hl and to the committee. WANTED TO LEARN WHO WAS THE "BOSS." "Let's see who's running this island, the defendants or the officials." said Representative Raker of California, a member of the committee, and forthwith the sjrgeant-at-arms brought in the counsel for the radicals, jsaak Schorr, who emigrated from Roairta In 1901. and was graduated from the New York University Uni-versity law school in ms. Ho was about to leave the island for the mainland. At the committees' request he told his clients the law required them to attend their hearings. All but seven of the sixty-six segregated radicals then reiterated re-iterated their refusal to attend the hearing hear-ing until the barrier was removed. Mr. I'M Inlormed Schorr that the Iron mesh would remain in place, and announced an-nounced that the deportation hearings would be continued tomorrow. Just how he would solve the puzzle of identifying the radicals he did not announce. Their counsel professed not to know all of his clients by' sight. Word of the strike came to the com. i I mittee vhen Mr. Uhl, questioned as to l delays in deportations and iu appeals bv I debarred Immigrants, was testifying as I to inadequate personnel and aecommo-! aecommo-! datlons. He read the following letter he had just received after the law officers f bad concluded one deportation hearing: READS LETTER FROM DETAINED RADICAL. i "Mr. Uhl: "Dear Sir In view of the fact that your promise and word whlcfl Isaak Schorr, our attorney, brought over to us ! as to the matter of visits, to wit: That no iron mesh or net or any other barrier-would barrier-would be placed between us and our friends at the time ot their visit to the Island has 'been broken by someone, we believe, by your subordinates; "We. tho inmates or room 203, declare that we demand that you give us a personal per-sonal guaraitee. undersigned by you. to the effect that at no time, neither during the hearings nor afterward, until we are deported, shall any barriers be placed between us and our friends at the time of their visit. "Expecting an immediate answer, we shall remain from going out to hearings hear-ings until said satisfactory and immediate immedi-ate answer shrill reach US. "Respectfully. "COM.M1TTKK OF ROOM 203. "M. . SCHEWSKV. "PETER P- B1ANKET. "ARTHUR KETZES." Members of the committee said they thought Biankey was the brains of the Strike He was arrested in Akron. Ohio, in 1917. and released in 51000 bail, and rearrested last month In New York. ONLY PERFUNCTORY EXAMINATION MADE. The Inquiry developed that many in-noming in-noming passenffers in whom congressmen congress-men were interested were passed with only a perfunctory examination, or. if they were detained, were released later on appeals supported by congressmen. These admissions were made by Byron H l'hl. acting immigration commissioner, commis-sioner, after Representative Box of Texas Interrupted his testimony to state that an inspector on the steamship Adriatic Adri-atic yesterday had informed him he had passed a woman passenger in whom a United .States senator was interested when he ordinarily might have detained her. He testified that seventy alleged anarchists, an-archists, Including two women, were be- (Cout-tiued on Pago if, Column 5 ) i j STRIKE INTERRUPTS PROBE BY U. S. (Continued From Page 6n.) ing held at the island, under warrants of arrest, and nine others under warrants of deportation. Hearings have been given to thirty-one- of the seventy cases. Mr. Uhl also repeated that of the sixty-five aliens, thirty-two of them alleged al-leged anarchists, brought here from Seattle Se-attle last spring, only seven were deported de-ported and the majority of the remainder released on bond or parole. Commissioner Uhl also said that thirteen thir-teen persons, mostly stowaways, had escaped es-caped frcn the island since June 1. He attributed this to the shortage of watchmen. Mr. Uhl said that he was unable to furnish a record the anarchists deported de-ported during the past two years because he had no record of such deportations. |
