AGITATOR ROUND UP IN AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 281, 23 August 1919, Page 7

AGITATOR ROUND UP IN AMERICA

ll a DEPORTING TBE REDS ■' ! 0 , TWO ANARCHIST EDITORS f - . !; More than a score of alien agitators were deported through Ellis Island in a 11 recent week, following a secret "service investigation of radical centres.'(says the "Christian Science Monitor"). It is understood that a number of alien anarchists;-. Bolsheviki, and I.W.W. also will bo sent, away soon. -Two. of the men dei ported were editors of-radical papers: i Pedro Canchez Martin of El Corsario, » who runs an anarchist organ published In ' New York and who was smuggled into ® the. United States last summer through j Mexico and has been, prominent among radical agitators ever since, and' Luigi 0 Gailienni, editor of a Boston paper known as ''Cronaca Sovversiva." who was a close friend of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkiuan. ' \ Tho deportations are being ; authority of ft law signed by President Wilson last October, wjiich provides that 1 "aliens who are anarchistic, aliens who J believe in or advocate .the overthrow, by force or violence, of tho Government of the United States, or of all forms of law, J aliens who disbelieve in,' or are. opposed to all forms, of organised government, aliens who teach or advocate the assassi--1 nation of public officials, aliens who advocate or teach tho unlawful destruction 1 of public propetty, or aliens who belong ; to- organisations which advocate or apj" prove any of these crimes, shall be de--1 ported. A study of the records of the men de- ' ported shows that many of them wero " smuggled into tho United States-through ' Mexico, and were among the most a'ctivo ' agitators in the United States. i ; ; Representatives from 35 cities that have r figured in £he recent bomb plots, together L with secret service agents and 'Govern- ■ ment officials, conferred on a plan for exchanging data on tho movements of ■ so-called retl agitators." Important in- - formation 'wiliich has been unearthed in I the course of recent investigation' rf ■ radical centres was produced, and a plan J of exchanging such information, so that ' the police heads of different cities could - be kept informed, was formulated.