New Britain herald., 1919-12-09
New York Legislative Com mittee Prepares EXhaus-
 tive Report on Radical
 Agitation in This Country.
CORRECTIVE MEANS
 ARE RECOMMENDED

l ton in this country with it's resultant social unrest, is not due to economic conditions but to an organized, arti- ficially stimulated movement. under the inspiraton of the Russian Soviet government. This opinion will be submitted to the New York legisla- tnre in an exhaustive report by the joint Legislative committee which has been Investigating radical activities here since it's organization last May it was learned today.
 Three Groups of Radicals.
 Three big groups of the radical ele- mcnt have been supplying the forces for wholesale disseminate of Bol- shevist propaganda throughout the depth and breadth of the land. the report will assert.
 ''Tho anarchist group. included the union of Russian Workers and other organizations; the syndicalist group, the main body of which are the In dustrial Workers of the World, and the communist group, including the communist labor party. In each of communist labor party. In each of these groups the overthrow of govern ent by illegal means. including vio-
 
 masses, the report will state.
 Have Many Headquarters.
 New York city is one of the big headquarters for the organized move ment, the report will point out with Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and v1r- .tually all industrial centers from the Atlantic to the Pacific harboring headquarters for the radical. cam paign.
 In the six months of the commit tees active investigation it has ferreted out practically every nook and cranny in Greater New York where radicalism extending to all sec tions of the country had it's nest. the report will state. Hundreds of arrests have been made on information fur nished by the committee. Scores of indictments for criminal anarchy have been returned on data procured and made available by it.
 First Criminal Conviction. The first conviction for criminal
 anarchy in the United States is claimed for New York on information furnished by it, on which Carl Piavio and Gust Alonen, publishers of a Finnish radical newspaper here, are serving sentences of from four to eight years in Sing Sing. (The so-
 called Chicago anarchists arrested in { the Haymarket riots there 20 years ago, were convicted of murder and ! not anarchy)
 Upward of 700 men have been em- ployed by the legislative committee in its investigation of the radical move i ment That number of special fo+~ L,,Jo York policemen were used in the eXe- cution of search warrants procured against 71 communist headquarters here on Novem Der s. A hundred men were used in tho search of the Rand
 School of Social Science, headquar- [ ters of the Left Wing of the Socialist
 Party and I. w. w. headquarters on
 June o1 Execution of search war
 rants against the Union of Russian
 Workers on August 14 employed nearly as many.
 Foreign Language Press. Special inquiry was directed at the foreign language and radical press i!l New York. Of 46 such newspapers.
 it was found that only two were self supporting. the committee report will ( declare. Many of the indictments for ! criminal anarchy have been return ed on evidence found in the columns of l somo of these publications. l Tn it's recommendations to the ' legislature, the committee will ap- proacl, the subject of corrective meas { ures for the radical menace in two 1 ways. First, 1t will recommend re- ' pressive legislation, not trying to ! limit free speech, but pointing out ] that free speech is abused when over ! throw of the government by violence ! and illegal methods Is advocated. Second, along constructive lines, ii j will recommend increasing the pres ] ent educational facilities for adult ! aliens better training of teachers, etc.