The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-09
WILL ASK COURT
TO END LUSK SCHOOL


AZ hAND AObIA bVAVVh
Continued from Firt Paoe.
IIillquit. 81 West 18th street, all OF New
York city, and Benjamin Hanford. s2s
Quincy street. Brooklyn.
Society Issues Statement.
In q Joint statement last night 8. John
Block and !. M. sackin. attorneys Tor
the American Socialist Society, said;
I'm reading reports from the press
bureau Of the Luck investigating COM
mittse, the public is asked TO remember
that the Rand School and the individuals
who have been assaulted before the COM
mittee have been given no opportunity to
answer the statements made against
them. The public should suspend judy
ment on the Rand Scnncl until Its sido
Ia heard In the courts. to which We In
tend to take the matter. 1t should be
remembered that the Rand School 10 q
peaceful and law abiding educational In
stitution, where the doctrines and pro-
grammes of scientific Socialism and
other subjects are taught.
"Criticism has been made by the Lusk
investigating committee that copies Of
the left wing Socialist publication. the
Communist, have been sold at the Rand
School bookstore. The fact that this
publication IL on sale in the bookstore
does not mean that all of it's sentiments
are endorsed by the Rand School. Many
wholly anti Socialists books are on sale
In the Rand School bookstore. but that
does not mean that the Rand School
endorses the contents OF those books
Publications OF various sorts and on all
sides OF the great public questions are on
sale In the bookstore OF the Rand School,
as they are on sale In every we'll
equipped bookstore"
Announcement that Attorney General
Newton had taken the matter to the Su-
preme Court and permission to bring
suit had been obtained came at the
close Of an all-day session Of the Lusk
Investigators. during the course Of
which much testimony Of cumulative
character was put into the record re-
warding the activities Of the three prin-
ciple groups OF radicals-the anarchists,
the syndlcalists and the Socialists both
Of the right and left wings.
Among the documents seized at the
headquarters Of the left wing OF tho
Socialist party, at - West Twenty
ninth street, which was read into the
record yesterday. and In which MEM
bers Of tho committee exhibited much
interest. was letter dated Croton-on-
the Hudson. April 3. II was addressed
to Dear Max" and signed Reed" At
torney Stevenson told the committee the
letter undoubtedly was written by John
Reed, a prominent left wing agitator
and addressed either to Max Eastman
or Macmillan Cohn. II read:
IT didn't have time. the other night.
to outline my plan to the executive COM
mittee. Perhaps you will be able to.
Plan TO Mix with Labor.
"I think we ought to get varney. or
someone. to call q convention of unem-
ployed for Cooper Union, or some such
place. (Not US, you know. but them
seives) The Soldiers Council or what
ever 1t is. ought to cooperate. and form
a Joint Soldiers and Workers organ!xa-
ton. Some of our gang should be
planted around the hall, and called on
to speak. They should elect a per-
manent executive committee to affiliate
with other similar bodies in other cities,
and the changing flow Of unemployed
ought to control and reflect the COM
mittee, which would settle down to In
GLIDING delegates from all sort Of trades 8:
and these In turn. when they went back,
should form factory committees in the
works. Demonstrations, &c, in the
meantime.
There are thousands in the bread
lines right now. More are coming
"In the meantime we must begin to
organize our May Day celebration. All
over the country gigantic demonstra-
lions are planned, Joining organized la
Dor, Socialists, l. w. WIS, Soldiers, &C.
understand that Madison Square Gar
den has been got for Mooney meet
ing. Can't II be arranged that the Gar
den be got for all day, and that con-
tinuous professions march there-one
for Debs, one for Mooney, one for the
unemployed, one of the soldiers and
sailors, and one TO celebrate the Inter-
national Revolution? The Soldiers Pro-
tectIye Association must furnish guards
In uniform.
1--WE ought to raise the whole city,
daunt red f,axs. or something of the sort.
.This gives a pretty insight into
Reeds idea" remarked Mr., Stevenson.
Mrs. Mai1ly Il subpoenaed.
me ciasn petween the conmil,eA ann
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