So far as it has been pursued. the committee finds no reason to believe that the prisoners were subjected to any ill treatment or underwent any discomforts not incident to the conditions under which the proceedings were prosecuted. as hereafter detailed. Some of them were of that class that rancorously array themselves against all government and cultivate faultfinding with its ministers as a fine art. More serious are the accusations touching the general character and conduct of the socalled raids through which most of the arrests were made. of usurpation by the Department ofJustice In connection with the same. and of flagrant disregard of the constitutional rights of those against Whom they were directed. � Between November 1. 1919. and April 26. 1920. warrants were issued by. the Department of Labor for the arrest. with a view to their deportation. of approximately 6.350 aliens who were alleged to be in this country in violation of the law. Approximately 3.000 arrests were made of persons named in such warrants. Others. in. considerable number not definitely fixed in the testimony. ascertained speedily to be citizens. were taken into custody in connection with the arrests of the aliens and more or less promptly discharged. (Testimony. pp. 312783.) The total number of arrests. it is quite likely. exceeded 10.000. Of the 3.000 Imprisoned. 762. at the last report before the committee. had been ordered deported. the warrants were canceled by the Secretary of Labor in 1.293 cases. and after some eight months or more approximately 1.000 still awaited final disposition. (Id.) Most of the arrests were made in the course of the " raids." the most fruitful of which were those directed against the Union of Russian Workers in November. 1919. and against the Communist Party and the Communist Labor Party on January 2. 1920. These were carried out simultaneously in many of the larger cities and industrial centers of the Union--Boston and vicinity. Paterson and the adjacent towns.
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