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Show HI Chairman Johnson Declares HI Post Violated Law in Belli Be-lli half of Aliens II MANY DEPORTATION II CASES ARE REVIEWED Wt Public Not Seeing Red With- ESj out Some Reason, Is the HI Claim Made Ki WASHINGTON, April 27. Charges Jfgfcl that Loui3 F. Post, assistant secretary ffol W of Jabor, had violated the law "in the: w5flj J behalf of aliens who have contempt for iMlgjr this government and who are trying Lf I to overthrow it," were made before the gfe , house rules committee today by Chair- Wg man Johnson, of the house immigra- fe tion committee. Mr. Johnson was the first witness at m the investigation into Mr, Post's con-fat con-fat duct in handling deporlation proceed-f. proceed-f. ings against radical aliens. He was fjjj'l allowed by Representative Hoch of 2N j Kansas, whose resolution looking to-ami to-ami Tvard the possible impeachment of the WJ& secretary is before the committee. HWjS Representative Johnson presented a tts report of committee investigators, pre-Sjij pre-Sjij pared by W. A, Blackwood of Seattle, Sag which reviewed many score deporta i W& i tion proceedings in which Mr. Post j Eh. was said to have cancelled deporta-1 glfc lions recommended by immigration in- spectors and the immigration bureau, j The cases, Mr. Johnson said , were I jJwl those of "alien communists and anar-1 m chlsts." mlp The report also shows a decision by the assistant secretary in cases in J ; , which he undertook to define tho wordj "anarchist" and to affirm that con ) g "i gress could not have used the word as J it a vertmi urjoit uui. Chairman Johnson declared "the I -pubiiis-not'Soiingv?d'Hioiitra"Tea-I "It is seeing its laws violated by public officials," he declared, "in heft he-ft half of aliens who have contempt for w this government and who are here try-E try-E ing to overthrow it. . . . Neither these tf aliens nor their revolutionary notions I are needed in the United States." , i Representative Hoch declared his f resolution did not involve any "politi-m "politi-m JJ cal or partisan consideration," but he 811 added that "there should be a show-n show-n N down in a situation which has become I'llti intolerable." |