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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...
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...
Married. Frederick Hudson Ecker. 64, president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; and Ann Edith Stafford, daughter of Dr. Philip Daily de Boisboisel, Paris physician and cousin of France's onetime President Raymond Poincar...
...wish to congratulate the CRIMSON on its interest in the case of Miss Edith Berkman as evidenced by its editorial yesterday morning. We believe, however, that one important aspect of the case was neglected...
...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...