Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1920 — DEPORTATION IS HIT [ARTICLE]

DEPORTATION IS HIT

RULING IN COMMUNIST CASES IiALTS RED SHIPMENTS. Secretary of Labor Wilson's Decision Is Considered a Blow at the War on Radicals. Washington, May 7. —As a result of a ruling by Secretary Wilson of the labor department that membership in the communist labor party does not Itself constitute sufficient ground for deportation of aliens, the course of the department of justice as to future action against radicals will not be determined until Attorney-General Palmer has had an opoprtunity to study the opinion. In making this statement Assistant Attorney-General Garvin declared that because of the ruling the case of the department of justice falls flat and there is nothing more it can do in apprehending persons such as constitute the communist labor party and which the department, he said, believes are a menace to the government. Secretary Wilson already had held that an al lap could not be deported simply because of membership in the I. W. W. In announcing his decision the labor secretary said that while extracts from the communist labor party's platform Indicate an extremely radical objective there is no evidence of intention to use force or violence toward organized government.