Many later swore they were threatened and beaten during questioning. Government agents cast a wide net, bringing in some American citizens, passers-by who admitted being Russian, some not members of the Russian Workers. ... Chapin on the South Bend News-Times – November 8, 1919 As Attorney General Palmer struggled with exhaustion and devoted all his energies to the United Mine Workers coal strike in November and December 1919 , [14] Hoover organized the next raids. ... Then, in testimony before the House Rules Committee on May 7–8, Post proved "a convincing speaker with a caustic tongue" [23] and defended himself so successfully that Congressman Edward W. ... ISBN 978-1-84989-944-4 . ^ a b c d e f Avrich, Paul, Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background , Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-02604-1 (1991), pp. 140–143, 147, 149–156 ^ "Plotter Here Hid Trail Skillfully; His Victim Was A Night Watchman", The New York Times, 4 June 1919 ^ "Wreck Judge Nott's Home", The New York Times, 3 June 1919 ^ Hagedorn, 229–30; Coben, 211 ^ Pietruszka, 146–7 ^ Coben 217–8 ^ Coben, 207–9 ^ Coben, 214–5 ^ Coben, 219–21; Post, 28–35. ... Post, 91–2, 96, 104–5, 108, 110, 115–6, 120–1, 124, 126, 131 ^ Post, 96–147, passim ^ Post, 91–5, 96–147 ^ Coben, 230; The New York Times : "Palmer Upholds Red Repression," January 24, 1920 , accessed January 15, 2010, ^ The Washington Post , "The Red Assassins," January 4, 1920 ^ a b Coben, 232 ^ Avakov, Aleksandr Vladimirovich, Plato's Dreams Realized: Surveillance and Citizen Rights from KGB to FBI , Algora Publishing, ISBN 0-87586-495-3 , ISBN 978-0-87586-495-2 (2007), p. 36 ^ Daniels, 545–6 ^ Post, 273 ^ https://www.aclu.org/about/aclu-history ^ Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice .