I go further than that. and I should say there would be no impropriety in any citizen doing that." (Hearings. pp. 351352.) Further. as to cooperation and the need of cooperation between the two departments. Attorney General Palmer states as follows : "Attorney General PALtaRs. The deportation statute. of course. is a statute to be executed. I may say. by the Department of Labor. " But In December of 1919. when the situation in the country was pretty bad. Mr. Chairman. when violence had broken out in a great many places of a nature that gave all thoughtful citizens much concern. there was a feeling that there ought to be cooperation in the enforcement of this statuteof the closest kindbetween the Department of Labor and the Department of Justice. and after conferences it was agreed that the Department of Justice would make the investigations and present the cases to the Department of Labor. laying the facts gathered by the Department of Justice before the Department of Labor and allowing the Department of Labor to act as the law provided. " That course was proceeded with. Individual arrests for deportation were made. but the situation was too big to be met by that sort of thing. The Department of Justice came to the conclusion that there was an organized effortor there were several organized effortsof a quasi revolutionary character. efforts were being made to organize masses of people. as we believed and as the evidence showed. to attempt to injure the Government by force. "The first organization that we investigated. which resulted in a number of arrests. was the Union of Russian Workers. " Senator STEnLNO. This was after your understanding with the Department of Labor? *Attorney General PALMUEa.
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