CRIMINAL ALIENS.

Auckland Star, Issue LVII, 1 March 1926, Page 7

CRIMINAL ALIENS.

CHICAGO IN THEIR GRIP.

IK LEAGUE WITH POLICE. LAW AND ORDER FLOUTED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) i ! (Received 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, February 2S. General Dawes presented to the Senate Committee an immigration petition from '. various civic bodies in Chicago, asking for a Congressional investigation into the conditions of lawlessness in Chicago resulting from the activities of criminal aliens. ; The petition charges States Attorneys and police with the protection of hootleggers, illicit alcohol makers and gangsters, and even publicly attending their ' funerals when murders occur in gang j ware. I The document further alleges: "For I the past four years there has been grow- ' ing up in this community a reign of lawlessness and terror, openly defying, not only the constitution laws of the State of Illinois, but those of the United States as well. The people of this community find themselves helpless to combat and change this condition and have been compelled to surrender many of their rights and privileges as citizens of the United States. There has been lin Chicago for a long time a colony of j i"iTirtiiv R ]ip Pt j persons hostile to our j institutions and laws, who have formed I a super-eroveranient of their own. eon- ! sistinsr of Lendkts. blackmailers. Black Handers and Vafiaisis. who levy tribute upon our citizen'; and enforce collections by terrorisations. kidnappings nnd asI sassination*."—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)