Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-11-26 | Page 8 | Aliens Keeping up Hunger Strike at Ellis Island

ID Aliens Keeping Up Hunger Strike At Ellis Island ji . n,'L:V YORK. Nov. 25. The hunger li strike at Ellis Island continued at noon when soup, beans, bread and but- ter, cake and coffee were lefl untouched. untouch-ed. Tlie strikers won five more re cruits during the morning, bringing their numoer to 73, among them two girls. Dora Llpkin and Elhel Bern sicin, arrested in a raid on the Russian Rus-sian people's house. The strikers prcsenle.l their "de 1 man.18" to the house committee in a letter delivered to Isaac Shorer, l heir j counsel. This letter, taking the form of a resolution not to appear at hear 111 ings or eat government food uhil. the wire net remained in place, complained complain-ed of cruel beatings and insults suf m fered at the hands r,f .-.cenic ,.f il,. l goernnient of the United States at , the time of their arrest. Shorei declared all his clients must either be deported to soviet Russia or allowed to pay their own pas-age there.