New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-22
Rand School,
Left Wing and
L.W.W. Raided


Huge quantities of books and docu-
ments were seized and set aside for re-
moval. At late hour. last night the
probers were still going through the
literature to add to the large quantity
they had already taken.
No one was arrested and no sub
ponies were served.
Algernon Lee, leader of the Social
lists in the Board of~Aldermen and
Educational Director of the Rand
School, denounced the raid as ridicu-
lous performance, and characterized
Mr.. Stevenson as the greatest maker
of Bolsheviki in America" ~.
He praised the conduct of the troop
ers and all others who accompanied
Mr. Stevenson, saying that they were
extremely courteous.
In fact the raiding party made such
little fuss that an interpretative dance
which was being executed bv three
rather pretty young girls In the gym
nasium on the top floor went on with
cut stop, and several of the state
troopers will bear witness.
The chief grievance-in fact the only
one-of Mr.. Lee was that Mr.. Steven
son, according to him, broke his word
not to enter any room unless some one
designated by the Rand School director
was also present.
I'VE do not advocate violence" said
Mr. Lee, land why | wanted one of my
men present when the papers were be-
ing examined and taken away was to
have them inventoried and watched,
lest something might be slipped in. To
put it in the vernacular, / wanted to
guard against a frame-up. One of
the books seized in the bookstore was
an economic and social history of
Professor Albert Bushnell Hart of
Harvard 1t is true that the manifesto
Of the Left Wing was also there. But
IT was and is bookstore, and any,
thing salable was carried in it's
shelves: both sociaistic and anti-social-
lstic books
Democratic Campaign Book There
For example, among the books we
have on file here, books now being ex-
amined by the raiding party, is copy
of the Democratic campaign book of
1916, which no one can say reflects our
views.
"The Rand School is not concerned
with, and has nothing to do with, doc
trines advocating violence"
Mr.. Stevenson, in the presence of
MIR. Lee, told the newspaper men that
he would like the public to understand
thoroughly that the raid was not on
the headquarters Of the Socialist party,
or on any political party.
eve know Mr.. Lees views; and he
is not concerned in these proceedings"
said MIR. Stevenson.
"I'm director of the Rand School and
stand for everything it does" said
Mr.. Lee. There is nothing illegal
committed by it,"
"Then you cannot be cognizant of
all that takes place in it, if that is a
statement of fact" retorted Mr..
Stevenson
Another Day Preferred
Mr.. Lee said that he would not have
minded the raid so much if it were
conducted on any other day but Sat
urday. "when most of the staff is
away"
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, the I. w. w.
leader. and numerous other extreme
radicals. occupy Offices in the building
None of these Offices, however, was
visited by the raiders.
cmploycd by the Lusk commissioners
special agent, on which the warrant
was issued. reads, in part:
THAT at the premises commonly
known as No. East Fifteenth Street
there is located a building in which ap-
pears the following sign: Rand School
of Social Science, the Peoples House,
Rand School Book Store The said
premises are maintained by the Rand
School of Social Science and by the
American Socialist Society, and per-
sons unknown to the deponent On the
goth day of June, 1919, l did purchase
of q mature person in charge of the
said bookstore certain publications
there displayed and for sale. The books
which | there purchased were the fol-
lowing: The New Social System, or the
Correct Basis of Economics and Ethics
Manifesto and Programme of the Left
Wing Section, Socialist Party Local,
Greater New York and three copies of
The Workers World of April 81, May
| and May 30, 1919, and The New York
Communist of Saturday, June 14''
The affidavit contains the following
quotations from the New Social Sys-
TEN:
Compulsory education is slavery
and must go.
1.-The new system will have courts
OF liberty and justice instead of the
so-called justice courts of the present.
and which do not know the meaning
of justice.
Liberty will give her (woman)
knowledge of how to get utmost hap
piness, minus the pain which is now
mixed with it, and will enable her to
select her best affinity at all times and
TO bear or not bear children, as she
chooses. Justice will pay her for the
average time 1t takes properly to raise
good child. A hog raiser gets paid
Tor raising hogs ana a spud raiser for
nursing and caring for potatoes. If
simple products are worth paying for,
why are not producers of all products
worth paying for?
compulsory marriage will be abol-
isned and sex mating become a pri-
waite csfair
Liberty requires that best judgment
IN natural selection and natural desire
oe always used in the present, and to
oind the future with solemn oath is
bondage slavery
Objects to Sunday Laws
Sunday laws, like marriage laws and
most other laws. are >infringements on
noerty. Religion is an auxiliary of
rulers. and was invented, or at least
aseo, by slave masters and tyrants to
further keep their slaves in subsection.
progressive people should work and
nght Tor justice and liberty now, first,
iast and all the time, individually and
collectively. and start the cooperative
c9Mmonwealth going now"
ne aihdavit comments as follows:
There are great many other reyo-
iutlonary, seditious and obscene state
ments IN the said book which are not
quoted IN this affidavit"
The pamphlet entitled "Manifesto and
programme Of the Left Wing Section"
IL quoted IN part as follows:
II Is the task Of q revolutionary
socialist party to direct struggles Of
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