New-York tribune., 1919-06-25
Documents Turned Over to
District Attorney to See
if There Is Reason to
Start Action in Court
Hearings To Be Resumed
Evangelistic Committee In
forms Attorney General of
Radicalism i'm Settlements

Senator Clayton R. Lusk, chairman
of the joint Legislative Committee
inquiring into Bolshevism in New York,
said last night at the Murray Hill Hotel
that there will be no hesitation or
procrastination on the part of the COM
mittee; that hearings would be re-
and that the committee will follow the
trail where it leads, without regard to
irresponsible clamor.
Senator Lusk, Attorney General New
ton and Archibald E. Stevenson called
at District Attorney Swann's office yes
terday afternoon and held conference
with Assistant District Attorney Rorke.
Mr.. Rorke received from Senator Lusk
various records, particularly copies of
the speeches made last Friday evening
in Madison Square Garden at the Mar
tenss protest meeting. At the request
of Mr.. Newton the District Attorney
assigned Mr.. Rorke to work with the
Lusk committee to ascertain what
violations, if any, had been committed.
Radicalism in Settlements
Charles A. Starr, of SAL Lexington
Avenue, representing the Evangelistic
composition, called yesterday at the Of
flee of the Attorney General and asked
that an assistant be designated to in
vestigate various complaints coming to
the committee to the effect that some
of the college settlements are centres
of radical Socialism, although support
ed financially by people who are op-
posed to socialism and who are sus-
tanning the settlements for philan-
thropic reasons.
The I. w. w. yesterday issued a
statement defying the Lusk committee,
but there were no names attached.
"The committee will go ahead with
it's work." said Senator Lusk. "It is
not true that the committee made pub
lie the names on the mailing list taken
in the visit of the officers to the Soviet
headquarters. Mr.. Stevenson merely
read q. few Of the names in order to
show the character and standing of the
people on the list. With reference to
Professor Alessandro Carasso, the in
terpreter, who said this committee is
made up of wofully ignorant men who
do not know the first principles of the
MARKHAM philosophy, all I wish to say
is that few days before the raid on
the Soviet headquarters Mr.. Carasso
said he was going to a certain place,
and we discovered that instead of going
there he went to the Soviet headquar-
ters.
says he was Let Out
"As we did not send him there, and
as he could not satisfy US that he had
a proper motive in going there, we let
him out. That's all there is to his So
called resignation
"We have been busy since the last
session of the committee in weighing
correspondence captured in the raid.
We expect to make good use of it.
Hugh Frayne, organizer Of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, will be re-
called to tell more of what he knows
of the ramifications of some of the
branches Of the radical organizations
that we already have heard something
about"
Mr.. Searr, during his call at the
office of the Attorney General, said his
organization had been impressed by
the fact that many of the people iden-
tilted with the Russian Soviet head
quarters seemed to be active in set
tlement undertakings. He said all his
committee desired was the truth about
the situation.
l. w. w. Manifesto
The manifesto from the I. w. W.
! headquarters, 27 East Fourth Street,
I said, in part:
eve have decided not to resort to
Flaw courts to get our rights, after
the bitter experience Of the last three
years. We have come to realize that
all efforts to secure justice through
any of the legal schannels in America
are futile. we, therefore, appeal to the
solidarity. of the working class in
America for vindication of our rights -
Another bit of "color" came from the
Fright Wingers" of the Socialist camp
the "Right Wingers" being the So
cialists who do not believe in direct
action. The Fright Wingers" said yes
terday that the Left Wingers" had
already made up their changing list,'
and that the list does not contain
the names of plutocrats at all, but is
composed exclusively of Fright Wing
ers," like Morris Hillquit, Algernon
Lee and John Spargo.
All was quiet at the Rand School
yesterday. The members of the state
police had departed and there were
observable only the ordinary activities
The same was true also of the other
radical headquarters.