They made rules for their own conduct. "1They complained occasionally of thei food and the sanitation of their quarters. most of these complaints had at least some ground. I never heard of any violence against their guards or attempt at it. " In general. a few of these people I should not care to have around me at all . they are a general nuisance. Most of them seem harmless. (Hearings. p. 314.) It is not to be understood that it Is contended that those who did not conscientiously embrace the principles of the Communist Party. knowing that It contemplated the overthrow of the Government by force. though they had in form become members of It. were not technically subject to deportation. We forbear entering upon this delicate question of law Involved. Assistant Secretary of Labor Post. acting for his chief. held that something more must be shown than that the accused was technically a member of the proscribed party. or at least that if it appeared that he did not understand that the purpose of the organization was thus to overthrow our Government. he should be released. His view seems to have been quite like that of the Detroit committee and the lawyers upon whose recommendation it "paroled" many of those ordered deported. On this point. as well as upon the character of the Communist Labor Party as an organization affected by the deportation statute. a controversy arose between the Assistant Secretary of Labor and the Attorney General. But we unhesitatingly condemn the making simultaneously of thousands of arrests. including many such persons and multitudes of others who by no stretch of the statute were amenable to deportation. with not only the dire attendant consequences heretofore adverted to but with the result that the Department of Labor was so overwhelmed with the work of taking the testimony and reviewing cases that it was months before a final determination was arrived at. in many of them. the prisoners meanwhile. the innocent and the guilty. at least those not able to secure the excessive bail fixed. rotting in jail. and no relief at hand from the close confinement even when the order of deportation was made for most of those found subject thereto. The following is quoted from the Panunzlo report. which purports to speak from the records on file in the Department of Labor : " Ignatz Marltzka (warrant No. 54860/734) was arrested on January 3. 1920. The warrant for his arrest was issued on January 16.
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