New-York tribune., 1919-07-21
Lusk Committee Investigate
ing Bolshevism Will Seek
Evidence of Circulation of
Literature by Institution
]. W. W. Wants a Hearing
DIR. Hornaday and John Nj.
Parker Issue Statements
on Menace of Radicalism

Following the lifting of the court
ban on the files and documents of the
Rand School of Social Science seized
in the raid Of June 81, members of
the Lusk committee inestigating Boil
shevism declared yesterday that they
would proceed with the examination
of these papers to-day
While nothing definite is known as
to the nature of the documents, the
committee expects to determine
through them the part the school
played in the dissemination of radical
propaganda here. Under Supreme
Court Justice McAvoy's order, how
cause tomorrow why they should not
be restrained from further use of these
papers. The committee will sit again
Thursday morning.
The l. W. w. wants to be heard by
ne Lusk committee. The request for
a hearing was made by I. S. Chumley,
BUSINESS manager of the Rebel
Yorker" the |. W W. publication.
ne policy of the |. W. W, he wrote,
ways had been open and direct
I'd he hoped that of the committee
Wants Some Publicity
I'VE are probably more desirous
ian you gentlemen" he wrote, "to
t the truth about the Industrial
Workers of the World before the pub
&c. I have been taught to believe
that it was a fundamental principle Of
American justice to hear both sides of
6 controversy. l want to have the best
rossible opinion of the country of my
birth. + part with its fine traditions
unwillingly. | trust that l shall not be
further discouraged by the Lusk com
mittee."
The defence fund for radicals has
been enriched by $4,000, given by an
individual who accompanied the gift
with letter saying: when the Lusk
raiders and safe crackers got to work
! felt that the time had come to get
back in harness"
Various means of combating the
menace of >Bolshevism in the United
States were suggested yesterday by DR..
William T. Hornaday. trustee of the
American Defence Society, and John
n. Parker, progressive nominee for the
vice-presidency in 1916. In brochure
embodying the results of an exhaustive
survey of the situation, DR.. Hornaday
strongest defence against revolutionary
agitation in the real labor element of
the country. and in the safety clutch"
supplied by the returning soldiers. Mr..
Parker advises the Immediate passage
of restrictive immigration and stronger
deportation laws.
"The real labor element of America" ."
says DR.. Hornaday in "The Lying Lure
of Bolshevism," "as exemplifed in the
American Federation of Labor, has
stood like Rock of Gibraltar against
the waves of anarchy that have vainly
endeavored to undermine it. The real
American worker-not the shirker, the
saboteur and the jawsmith-has more
intelligence, more reasoning power,
more real sense, more money in the
bank and more real estate than the
worker of any other nation under the
sun.
"He knows when to stand up and
strike for his rights, but he has mil
lion times too much sense to dream of
such insane folly as trying to seize
the factory and man it himself, without
either capital, credit or business ex-
perience. He knows that capital is just
as necessary to labor as labor is tc
capital, and that both are entitled to g
square deal. Where his housing anC
his conditions are not right they shoulC
be made right"
The men of the A. E. F., said DR.
Hornaday, have learned common sense
patriotism as the result of their ser.
vice overseas, and in any clash with
Bolshevism here they can be depended
upon to be on the American side. They
have no illusions, he said, as to Z
rough-necked "proletariat" Soviet gov.
ernment.
Better Than Anywhere on Earth.
Mr.. Parker says the people must bt
impressed with the fact that in thi.
country not only is labor infinitely bet
ter treated than anywhere else in tn,
world, but their recompense is very
much larger and their hours of worl
fewer. Intelligent plans, too, shouli
be worked out to enable capital ane
labor to work together on lines whicl
would assure reasonable revenue t
capital, full wages to labor and jus
division of the surplus in good years.
Congress should, as early as pos
sible," says Mr.. Parker, "enact rigor
Gus laws prohibiting immigration t
this country for at least five years
and should permanently eliminate tn
ignorant, illiterate and vicious. Wher
they are found to slip in by acciden
laws should be 80 framed as to rende
their deportation to the country fron
which they came both rapid and Ger
tain"