The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-02
SOCIALISTS SCORED
AT COUNCIL SESSION
Vladeck Calls Declaration
Signers Bolshevists, and
Storm Breaks.
TABLET CAUSES SCRAP
Security League at Work on
Campaign to Counterfeit
PrOpagandists.

The walls OF wrath Of the Republican
and Democratic members of the Board
OF Aldermen were poured literally on the
Socialists at the meeting yesterday when
Alderman b. c. Vladock, one OF the
Seven Reds. declared that the signers
of the Declaration OF Independence were
"Bolsheviks. pure and simple"
The outburst came on the passage OF
the report of the committee on general
welfare ordering the filing of the resolu-
ton of Alderman McGarry for the plac-
ing of a tablet containing the Declara-
tion of Independence on one of the walls
OF the Aldermanic Chamber. and on the
opposite wall tablet with the Ten
Comma ndments Alderman McGarry
raised no objection to the report of the
committee, but Alderman Nladeck did on
The ground that the men who brought
the Declaration of Independence into tho
world were members of the cult which
the Socialists admire.
Alderman Quinn, Republican, was
first on his feet. alderman Nladeck
dares to stand on this floor" he roared.
''and while expressing his admiration
for the Declaration of Independence has
The affrontery to say that its signers
were Bolsheviks. At the same time
members OF his party are preaching rev
OlutlOH every udy. lnty dic IShSNASN
Arnolds. traitors to this country"
81 have no fault to find with the So
cialists as members of a separate party.
declared Alderman Keaneally, Democrat
-"But / am opposed to Bolshevik bomb
'throwers Boishevism means nothing
more than murder and destruction
squiers' Ire Aroused.
"It makes any man with red blood in
hni said Alderman
Squiers of Brooklyn, ito hear the doc
trine advanced by the Socialists II they
want fight in America they can get It,
and they may be assured that we are
going to drive them out of the dark cor
ners they have been occupying. out into
the daylight. As a red blooded Ameri-
can citizen I cannot stand here and listen
to their arguments without answering
II they don't like the form of government
We have in this country let them go TO
Russia, as they seem TO like the Govern
ment they have there
The resolution was placed on file by
vote of So to 8.
q ]. Black and I. NJ. Sackin. counsel
for the American Socialist socity, which
operates the Rand School and the Society
of the Commonwealth Centre. which own
the Peoples House. in which the fano
School is operated, served on Attorney
General Newton. counsel for the LusK
legislative committee, notice or motion
before Chief Magistrate McAdoo for
vacation of the search warrants on which
the People's House was raided ana sa1e
opened and the papers of the organiza :
tion carried away. The argument Will
be made at IL o'clock tomorrow.
The papers in the case were accom-
panied by affidavits from Bertha II.
Mailly, executive secretary OF the fand
school, and George II. Strobel, general
10 HnuqA TheX
charged that the warrants had oeen
illegally issued and that they had been
carved with undue violence. They
charged Walter Converse, investigator
for the LuslS Committee on whose ami
davit the warrants were issued, with
making false statements They asserted
that his declaration that certain DOCKS
and papers we're designed to overthrow
our form OF government and to incite
riot was nothing more than "vile mag
Things" Also. the affidavits stated that
the declaration OF Converse that he had
overheard a member Of the school say
after the raid on the Peoples House
TITS a good thing they have not opened
the safe on the third hoor," was mis-
statement
Charge Conhscatfon.
strobel also complained last night that
the things taken in the raid had not
been placed in the hands of the Magis-
trate issuing the warrant. but had been
carried to the rooms of the LuslS Com
mittee, contrary to law.
'If warrants such as these are 10
stand" he said, ''the property and papers
Of no person are safe from inquisitoria
search and seizure on hearsay by IRE
sponsible persons and notoriety seekers
with political ambitions. such as GER
tain members of the Lusk Committee"
His organization would fight the case
TO the highest courts in the land, Strobe
declared.
The National Security League in a
statement last night said that the dis
closures of the Lusk committee that the
Bolshevist propaganda was being spread
among the negroes was no surprise Ia
them. Months ago they had formulated
plans to counteract this influence, 1t was
said.
THE disclosures Of the Lusk commit
tee" said Robert VI. McElroy, educa'
tional director of the league, leave M
room 10 doubt that the reaCtionarH
propagandists are diligently working
among the negroes Of the South. The
German-American Citizens League oil
America has announced its programme
as first. instruction IN American citizen
ship. and, second, preservation of the
German language and culture.
Agents OF the National Security
League are now at work In the summer
schools for negro teachers In the South
having decided that to be the best way
TO reach the problem
The American Russian Committee fo
the Relief and Salvation of Russia an
nounced last night that on July i
would hold a parade and mass meeting
"for the purpose Of demonstrating the
fact that upward of 1000 Russians II
this country are opposed to The rule o
the BoIsheviki" Senator William II
King OF Utah and Count Tolstoy vii
be the principal speakers at the meetin,
TO be held in Carnegie Hall. Gen. 4. y
Dobrjansky of the Russian Nationa
Army, and DR.. J. T. O'Connor, formerl!
United States Consul at Petrograd, viii
also speak.