 He was forced to emigrate from the country following the defeat of the Revolution of 1905.In the United States, Alanne worked for two years as the manager of a coal mine in Hanna, Wyoming, and for two additional years as a research chemist for the Viscol Company of Cambridge, Massachusetts.He later took a position as an editor of the Finnish-language socialist daily newspaper "Työmies" (The Worker), located in Hancock, Michigan.