If we are to accept the press reports. the Secretary of Labor stood side by side witl Mr. Gompers. insisting in snbstance that. notwithstanding the unlawful conduct of these strike leaders. tile strong arm of the law should not be exercised to restrain them. Republicans and Democrats alike should unite in sustaining the Department of Justice. not only In its position toward the coal strike but in its efforts to round up the reds and radicals for deportation. It is a sad commentary upon our Government in the handling of this " red " menace to have a Department of -Justice ever aitert in detectinlg the anarchists and ali firebranas. who ought to he deported. and on the other hand a Dea partment of Labor which is overly nice In deciding whether these culpr:ts should be deported after being apprehended by U .e Department of Justice. I have in mind that last spring come 50 Bolshevists were gathered In at Seattle and sent to Ellis Island for deportation. The public never read a more encouraging item of news. The Department of Labor. a few days later. according to newspaper reports. paroled some 20 of these radi. cals. anti they received an ovation at the New York I. W. W. headquarters. The jurisdiction over deportation ouaht to be transferred from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice. The American Federation of Labor. in Its statement today: pledging support to the strike leaders of the United Mine Work1 ers of America. even to the extent of defying the Government. and its courts. is guilty of a most outrageous assault upon the principles of American government. There is no longer any middle ground.
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Generalizing that 'reds' and 'radicals' are anarchists and firebrands who ought to be deported.