The deportations delirium of nineteen-twenty : a personal narrative of an historic official experience /

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Main Author: Post, Louis F. 1849-1928.
Corporate Author: Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)
Contributors: Storey, Moorfield, 1845-1929.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Charles H. Kerr & Company, ©1923.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prefatory note / by the author
  • Introduction / by Moorfield Storey
  • The sensational voyage of "the Soviet ark"
  • Culpability of "the Soviet ark" deportees
  • Deportation raids in anticipation of the voyage of "the Soviet ark"
  • The bombs that begot the deportations delirium
  • Preparations for the "Red" crusade
  • Beginnings of the "Red" crusade
  • The January raids
  • a nation-wide glance
  • The raiding in New England
  • The raiding in New York and vicinity
  • The raiding in Philadelphia and vicinity
  • The raiding about Pittsburgh and Buffalo
  • The raiding at Cleveland and southwest-ward to the coast
  • The raiding in the region of Chicago
  • The raiding at Detroit
  • The Assistant Secretary of Labor takes charge
  • Communist Party members
  • Communist Labor Party members
  • A clutter of "Red" records
  • Decisions in the "Red" cases
  • Principles of decision
  • Routine methods
  • Deportations directed
  • Deportations denied
  • Distinctive cases
  • Impeachment proceedings initiated
  • An angel from the business skies
  • Opening of the impeachment fight
  • Before the House Committee on Rules
  • Attorney General Palmer on the defensive
  • Collapse of the impeachment proceedings
  • An after-play
  • The Salsedo homicide
  • Case of the Russian Ambassador
  • Lawless meddling with the mail
  • Indictment of the Department of Justice by twelve eminent American lawyers
  • The Department of Justice at the bar of the Senate
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Appendix. Fundamental American principles: equality of human rights ; Revolutionary rights and their limitations ; Constitutional safeguards ; Popular government.