New-York tribune., 1919-11-20
Is Teachers
Summoned as
'Red' Suspects
Lusk Committee Will Ask
Board To Dismiss Those
Found To Be Members
of the Communist PARTY

Fifteen teachers suspected Of affilia-
ton with the Communist party or any
similar organization which seeks to
overthrow the government were sub
p1naed yesterday to appear Tomorrow
before the Lusk Legislative Commit
tee
"Any of The teachers who admit thew
are members of the Communist party,
or who have revo iutionary tendencies,
VIII be recommended to the school au-
thorities as candidates for immediate
Hismissal," said Samuel A. Berger.
deputy Attorney General. VINO issued
thu rubpnnas. Or. William L. Ettin-
ger. Superintendent Of Schools has al.
ready ru ed that FOR a teacher to he
a Communist 10 sufficient ground for
his or her dismissal. We obtained the
names of these fifteen teachers during
our recent Investigations. We do not
condemn them in advance, but we have
sufficient evidence to warrant calling
them in for "a hearing"
Summary dismissal was ordered by
DR.. Ettln%er yesterday in The case Of
Sonia ~insDerg 1885 Forty first street,
RroOklyn. a probationary teacher in
Public School No. 10. who admitted
she was a member of the Communist
party. DR.. Ettinger said Miss Gins
berS's license to. teach woulG De re-
vokeo.
Some OF the questions put to Miss
Glnsberg and her answers were:
Are you member of the Commun-
is: party ?"
81 am. But when joined did not
think it stood for the overthrow of the
government by force
Are you satisfied with our form of
government? ?"
II am not. think it is open to a
great many improvements. 1t is run
in the interest Of the capitalistic class
1t should be run in the interest of the
workers."
Recommended for Dismissal" wrote
DR.. Ettinger on Miss Ginsberg's pa
pers. The recommendation later was
adopted by the Board of Education.
Dr.. Ettinger, commenting on the case
said:
"Any teacher who is found to pro-
with in the same way, provided he or
she is Oil probation. Charges will be
preferred in cases where teachers have
regular licenses and they will be tried
in the usual wy
ut is crime for teacher profess
ing such sentiments TO be in charge of
innocent chi dren. 1t is really an as
sault on the mcnta ity of children,
worse than an actual physical assault"
Thirty thousand dollars in cash and
Liberty bonds were put up as bail yes
terday for the release of James Larkin.
the Irish agitator, and Benjamin Git
low, former Socia ist Assemblyman.
They had been imprisoned for ten days
on chHrges of Grim nal anarchy. Larkin
and Git'ow were among one thousand
men taken in the Lusk raids on the
Communist headquarters. They were
held by Chief Magistrate McAdoo for
the Grand Jury.
After failing to obtain the release of
the prisoners through habeas corpus
proceedings and through the offer of
real estate deeds as bali. friends of the
men yesterday decided to pool their
Liberty bonds. Lawyers with hands
full OF bonds, ranging in value from
$50 upward went b. fore Justice Fran
els 8. Dclehanty and provided the
bail
Decision in the cases of six men ar
rested in q raid on Communist head.
quarters at 2O3 Grand S rect, Williams
= re-. was p.s poned by Magistrate
Francis McC' oskey yesterday until De-
cember 2. Charles Recht. attorney for
the defendants, pleaded that the cases
be dismissed. He contendcd that the
Communists were not more radical than
the SjDn ToiparS