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...arrest of seven men, two of them Harvard students, while they were demonstrating for the release of Edith Berkman yesterday, brings up anew the question of "class-war" tactics. The action of Mrs. Tillinghast, of the Immigration Bureau, has been sufficiently antagonizing. By refusing to see the persons involved in yesterday's demonstration, she enabled them to appear as martyrs in their cause. She has, moreover, persistently maintained an unconciliatory attitude and to some extent denied to Miss Berkman the privilege which she has herself exercised of presenting her case to the press. The police probably added to the error...
...CRIMSON does not now pass on the merits of the Berkman case itself. It does feel that the students harmed their own cause by allowing the affair to take such a turn as to give the newspapers an opportunity to brand their action as a "Hunger March" staged by "radicals." The American public, much to its own disgrace, refuses to have any sympathy with a movement tagged "radical," regardless of the justice involved. Practical action to aid political prisoners should be planned with a full recognition of this condition, and such action should avoid antagonizing the public until every alternative...
...mistake of the students, and of ular, was in falling to exhaust lawful and peaceful means of influencing the officials to release Miss Berkman. Except for a meeting of the Harvard Liberal Club, and some publicity, the efforts to arouse public opinion were incomplete and inefficient. If their cause is a just one those interested could, with sufficient diligence, have won most of the student body to their point of view. With such backing the group might have accomplished a great deal by enlisting the aid of influential people. Their present action exposes them to the accusation of being publicity...
Elsewhere in this issue are given the facts of the Edith Berkman case as presented to the Harvard Liberal club and as gathered from the personal interviews of several Radcliffe and Harvard students with the imprisoned defendent. The account pictures a woman, foreign born, accused of attempted overthrow of the United States government, unable to be legally deported, held in a hospital having contracted tuberculosis at the immigration prison, and what is of more importance-held by an immigration commissioner who has it in her power to recommend release but who refuses to do so in spite of the insistent...
...right" to free speech and agitation when this "right" conflicts with ruling class interest. It realizes that in an industrial crisis the machinery of the State is used to suppress by any means the activity of militant working-class unions. And it is with these unions, of which Edith Berkman was a member and organizer, that we sympathize and propose to defend. E. Y. Hartshorne...