Sunday, January 12, 2020

Should Legally Elected Socialists Be Allowed To Serve? Also, 249 Undesirable Residents Deported to Russia, Jan. 12, 1920

From the front page of The Daily Times, Wilson, N.C., Monday, January 12, 1920

Brilliant Legal Talent Will Defend Socialists. . . Plans Made for Finish Fight in Behalf of Suspended Assemblymen

New York, Jan. 11—A brilliant array of eminent counsel, chiefly “constitutional lawyers,” will plead the cause of the five suspended socialist assemblymen when they appear before the judiciary committee at Albany Wednesday, it was announced after an executive meeting of state and city leaders of the party here today. Charles E. Hughes, who voiced disapproval of the assembly’s course in a letter to Speaker Sweet, will be among the number if he can be induced to accept a retainer, it was said. Plans were made at the conference for a finish fight in behalf of the five men who were victors at the poles in the last election.

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“Soviet Ark” Will Land “Reds" at Finnish Port

Helsingfors, Finland, Jan. 11—The United States army transport Buford is expected to arrive here Monday. The passengers, it is reported, are to be sent by train to a point in Finland opposite Petrograd.

A dispatch from Kiel Saturday announced that the Buford, which has on board 249 undesirable aliens deported from the United States, had arrived there Friday evening and would lay up for several days in order to effect repairs. While no official announcement has been made as to where the “Reds” will be landed, Helsingfors, Hango and Abo all have been mentioned as possible ports for the debarkation.

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