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Show ,v PALMER LAUNCHES ATTACK ON POST Assistant Labor Secretary Declared De-clared in Sympathy With Criminal Anarchists. PALMER REPLIES TO SENSATIONAL CHARGES " "Denies He Forms Communist Bodies Just So He Can . Raid Them. Mff WASHINGTON, June 1 (By the WM Associated Press) Charging that Louis a: Post, assistant secretary of pkl labor, had a "perverted sympathy" for Mnfl the criminal anarchist. Attorney Gen- W'M oral Palmer told a "uae committee mm today that in dealing with attempts MM of the government to rid the country Mm, of dangerous aliens, Mr. Post had em- IS ployed a "self-willed and autocratic substitution of his own mistaken per- $1 sonal viewpoint for the obligations of hi tn0 Pullic ffigfl Charges Made jpfll Mr- Palmer, was" testifying before the WMm rules' committee which is investigat- fgmw ing the official conduct of Mr. Post in rjBM deportation proceedings. fl In answering Mr. Post's statements that he had cancelled deportation warrants "only where facts warranted such action," Mr. Palmer cited numerous num-erous individual cases which ho claimed placed the assistant secretary in a position of "passive tolerance and encouragement of Bolsheviki propa- j II Palmer declared M. Post had "be- I come a-factor in the revolutionary 44 plan" but he credited the assistant secretary with having been led into it "unconsciously. Guns and Bombs Regarding Mr. Post's assertion that "with all of these sweeping raids, only three pistols have been found." Mr. Palmer named a dozen cities in which he said the raids had disclosed preparation pre-paration of the aliens to employ both guns and bombs. Charges by Jackson H. Ralston, counsel for Mr. Post, that tho department depart-ment of justice had agents in service who wer.e engaged in forming new 2ommunlst local organizations against which raids could be directed, were tmaracterlzed by tho attorney general as "deliberate and unwarranted false- |