New-York tribune., 1919-07-17

Ship Strike,
Plan of Reds
|. W. W. and Russian Soyiets
Set Sept. l as Date When
No Vessel Should Move:
Working Among Negroes

I. W. W. leaders working with agents
OF the Russian Soviet government plot
ted a dock and marine strike which
should sweep the seas cleaner than
ever the U-boats did, according to in
formation which has reached the Lusk
committee and will be introduced in
evidence at to-day's session.
The waterfronts and shipping of
Spain, Holland, England, France and
Latin american countries have been in
tested for months, it is said, by the
agents of the Bolsheviki and the ]. w.
W. who intended that September I
should see every ocean shipless and
every nation in the throes of a huge
strike on it's seaboard. For more than
a year strikers, avowedly Bolshevist in
sentiment and purpose, have tied up
the harbor of Buenos Ayres, at times
inflicting an. actual embargo upon that
Argentine port.
BY propaganda along the waterfront,
by hints dropped in fo'castles, by ad-
vances Of money to individuals and by
insinuating themselves and their doc
trines into dockside and marine unions,
these agents are said to have prepared
the way for the world wide strike
scheduled for September /.
For months agents Of the Depart
ment of .Justice have known of their
activities among the marine unions Of
this city. and it is believed that con-
siderable part Of those unions has
been affected. Radicals assert that in
many locals a majority of the members
secretly carry the red I. W. W. card.
Several prominent labor leaders will
be among the witnesses called by the
Lusk committee to-day.
Temporary Prohibition
S. John Block, counsel for the Amer;-
can Socialists Society, which conducts
the Rand School, yesterday obtained q
temporary writ Of prohibition from
Justice McAvoy in the Supreme Court
which restrains Senator Clayton K.
Lusk and the members of his investi-
eating committee from using any of
the documents, books or papers seized
in the raid on the Rand School pending
|
torney General Newton to annul the
charter Of the institution and to have a
receiver appointed for it, A hearing to
determine whether this restraining
order shall be made permanent will
take place this morning before Justice
Ford in the Supreme Court. Deputy
Attorney General Berger will argue
against the writ being made perma-
nent.
This action was taken on advice Of
Samuel Untermyer, who is a volunteer
attorney for the radicals Mr. Inter
myerr is now recuperatng at White
Sulphur Springs, Va, preparatory tc
appearing for the Socialists at the
trial on July 28 On this day Mr.
Newton will seek to have the charte,
of ~the school annulled and obtain the
| appointment Of receiver to take care
of its assets.
=, The writ is directed against Chief
Magistrate McAdoo, Acting Chief Mag.
istrate Harris, Senator Lusk, Attor-
ney General Newton, Deputy Attorney
General Berger, Clarence l.. Converse
special agent Of the committee, anc
i Archibold Stevenson, associate counse
for the committee. The order directs
that all property Of the Rand Schoo
seized in the raid be turned over tt
Magistrate McAdoo and held subject tt
oIucIe Dy tne supreme NOurC.
Mr.. Block said yesterday that h.
understood that the books and paper.
we're in the physical possession of tn,
Lusk committee and that he would to
day demand that the Supreme Cour
take over physical control Of tn,
papers
Reds Work in South
Tho Lusk committee operatives hav,
what they say is conclusive evidence
that the radical Socialists and Boil
sheviki have been engaged for som,
time past in the dissemination O
radical propaganda among the negroes
4 The committee has the name Of
prominent white woman who has give,
large contributions to carry on thi
work. Her name will be made publ
at q hearing of the committee mex
weAk when this phase Of tho Re-
| Propaganda will be taken up.
| The reports Of. the investigators o
the committee say the propagand,
among the negroes WAS launched on
large scale last February when "Th'
Messenger" "a radical negro publica