The sun., 1919-06-23
COMMITTEE AIMS
TO SIFT RADICALS
Advocates Of Violence VIM Be
Separated From Those Who
Favor Peaceful Methods.
SEEK FULL LIST OF REDS
Revolutionary Disciples to Be
Required to Sign Waivers of
Immunity Before Testifying..

The Lusk committee. with powers Of
examination far broader than those OF q
Judge or magistrate. is determined tc
separate the sheep from the goats
among the radicals. make those who
advocate violence under n cloak OF impli'
cation either deny or affirm their faith
Ind thus shatter their hold on tho fol-
lowing out of which the deluded per-
pttrators OF bomb outrages are recruited
o. prosecute the red disciples on their
own admissions. To this end. II was
learned yesterday, q most careful COM
pllation is being made OF all Of the
yelled illusions to violence found In
yesterdays raids.
Certain authors and distributors Of
this literature will ne required to sign
waivers Of immunity upon appearance
before the committee there to face cross
examination as to Just what they mean
by such phrases as those contained In
abe manifesto OF the Left Wing Of the
Socialist party which proclaims its de-
sire to appropriate banks and rail-
roads without compensation except to
the small stockholders and which hopes
that the revolution will be accomplished
with as little bloodshed as possible"
State troops were still on guard at the
Rand School yesterday and last night
A safe. alleged to belong to the Society
OF the Commonwealth Center, Inc, was
the object Of their watch. This society
ts the corporate owners OF the premises
In which the Rand School and its radical
adJuncts from gymnasium to book store
nre conducted. The search warrant OF
the raiders on Saturday did not specify
this organization or Its property and
Alsernon Lee and others in charge Of
n <a ha that xx-hf Ia
they are perfectly willing that the in
Testigators should see anything that Ia
In the safe. 1t Ia up to the investigators
10 see to II that II Is done legally.
Seek Full List of Radicals.
The investigators OF the Lusk COM
mittee are In perfect accord with them
on this and steps win be taken to-day,
u Is reported. to have the search war
rants amended to include the disputed
eafe. Meanwhile Sergeant George E.
Armstrong and couple Of troopers from
Troop X sit about the offices OF the So
ciety and argue everything from eco
pomics to astronomy with George III.
Strobell. the custodian of the Peoples
House. Mr.. Strobell processes the belief
that. he will soon convert the troopers to
fadicalism. Sergeant Armstrong when
last seen averred that UP to that mo-
ment he considered 1t all a bunch Of
Observation-Disclosures stuff"
The anxiety Of the Lusk committee to
get into this safe IL believed to be based
on their desire to get all the names DOS
sible connected with the radical move
ment to serve In the goats and sheep
process above mentioned. All the names
found in the Rand School, the !. w. w.
headquarters and the Left Wing head
quarters were carefully preserved by the
searchers yesterday. .... ....
II is candidly admitted that the COM
m!ttee does not expect to reach by this
means any OF the active artieipanta in
the recent bomb outrages Its function
explicitly is tho development of infor-
nation that will aid the Legislature In
framing new laws against the Reds. II
Us further stated that none of the ma
terial SO far made public would stand a
test under the rules of evidence for the
conviction OF any person under the laws
OF the State or nation.
All of it. in fact, has already been
scrutinized closely by agents OF the De-
partment of Justice and the Post Office
Department. 1t was stated at the Rand
School yesterday that within recent
months nearly $1,000 OF Government
money had been received there. paid by
agents for tho purchase OF items OF the
stores stock As this matter reads, no
Hp" UDIcCtlOuaDle lto sense may
be 10 the average reader. experience has
shown the Federal agents that once
brought into court Its authors are able
to explain away their suggestions In a
way to invalidate the printed words as
evidence. As the court examinations
are necessarily limited to the text Of .he
matter at Issue. these prosecutions have
never been successful. Matter that
might ordinarily be construed as OBJ
In ia. u
and that which might appear seditious Ia
made to appear like a legitimate exer-
else OF the freedom of the press.
Socialists Split on Programme.
The legislative committee. however, is
not so limited. Its subject includes
everything relating to radicalism and IL
can demand an answer to questions as to
the faith behind the radical works
Agents of the Department of Justice,
while expressing the belief that the Lusk
Committee would not help much toward
actually tracing out the bomb throwers,
were frank TO admit the value of this
phase Of their work.
There Is not the slightest doubt in
the minds or any one who reads their
papers or hears their speeches that these
people will welcome violence II violence
is the only way their ideas can be made
experience with the radicals yesterday.
yet all of their expressions arc so
equivocally framed as TO protect them
from prosecution. But In every Red au-
oience and among the readers of every
1ted paper there are fanatics, perhaps
sincere. perhaps weakminded, but GER
tainly dangerous, who feed up on this
stun before making their plans for such
violence as the two recent bomb out
RACES. II the Lusk Committee does MOTH
ing else 1t will serve q valuable nurpose
III calling tho attention of the public to
THIS subtle propaganda which has been
going on for SO long. II is a difficult
thing TO frame legislation to meet the
present case. Perhaps the Lusk Com.
mittee viii clear up the facts rather than
tho law"
Meanwhile tho night between the pres
ent national officials OF the Socialist
party and their revolutionary left wing
continues to rage. The national execu-
tive committee yesterday issued a buile-
TN In which 1t warned the members that
the foreign language groups OF the party
were ehdeavoring to dominate II by foul
means and TO commit the party 10 the
revolutionary programme of the left
wing before the special conferences Of the
party called for August 80.
The national executive committee has
already revoked the charter of the Michl-
gan local tor adherence to the revolu-
tionary programme and has suspended
the Hungarian, Lettish. Lithuanian. Pol
ish, South Slavic. Russian, and Ukrain-
Ian language declarations for defiance OF
the executive committees orders. The
Michigan local. conforming with the left
wing belief that all reform must he eff
fected by revolution and that n In. n