The sun., 1919-06-23

| party. Tho State executive committee II
authorized to revoke the charter OF any
local that does not conform to this
amendment"
stand Of the RevoIutionist-.
! The bulletin Of the executive commit.
! tee then cites declarations In favor OF
the revolutionary programme from state
ments and publications Of the various
foreign language groups. From Masp
Ttesd, the Lithuanian organ. is quoted .
1 long article asserting that revolution Is
the party's only means, and concluding
"And to attain this end such an or
ganization must have firm foundation
and that foundation could be laid down
only by foreign language revolutionary
Socialist declarations
Workers Of all the countries, unite.
~. J. KRAvcEvIc."
The executive committee says OF this
declaration:
Here are dennite suggestions for a
split In tho party. and assertions that
the party Is inclined TO compromise with
the bourgeoisie' and that the self styled
Left Wing IL revolutionary group II
constant repetition OF phrases, common
action with Government officials and sys-
tematic sabotage Of the party are 'revo-
lutionary.' then this group 10 correct
stating that a genuine Socialist party in
this country can be formed only by for
eign language revolutionary Socialist
federations.' All OF which implies a die
tatorship In the party by certain foreign
speaking comrades"
The Common action with Government
officials" alluded to IL the charge made
by the Right Wing that the Left Wing
interfered with the party machinery Just
at the time when the Government was
arresting Socialists and the party try
Ing to get them out Of Jail. Each side
makes the charge that II the other were
to succeed in the revolution II would, like
the capitalists. be the FIRST to shoot It's
rival fellow Socialists. In none Of the
literature Of the controversy IL there
anywhere observable an allusion to the
universal brotherhood Of man, upon
which all the propaganda tracts OF the
party SO vociferously lay stress.
Investigators Kept Under Fire.
Meanwhile attacks continusd~to be
made on tho methods employed by the
Lusk committee. centripg upon Archi-
bald Stevenson. It's associate counsel and
the man who has directed the raids. 8.
John Block. State chairman OF the So
ciaiist party and its counsel. declared
yesterday that the raiders were merely
doing their best to help the committee
spend it's $4,000 appropriation, and that
they had found nothing illegal.
Tactics OF this kind resulted in revo-
luton in other countries. 1t is entirely
within the realm of possibility that peo-
pie may be goaded to extreme action In
this country by disregard of their
rights by those who are In power and
who do not know how to exercise that
power"
Aisernon Lee reiterated his declara-
tion that the raids are Strengthening the
distrust OF people for the powers Of
1873
Feliciu Vexler. who describes himself
as librarian OF the Columbia School of
Philosophy, told THE SUN yesterday that
he had resigned his position as trans
lator for the Lusk committee a week
ago. after the raids on the Soviet Blu
reau. He says he Is not a Socialist and
that he strongly condemns Bolshevism.
but that the methods OF Mr.. Stevenson
and his raiders were too strong for him.
He charges that no member of the COM
mittee itself was present when the
papers seized were examined.
Associated with Stevenson" says
Vexler. "and one Of the few men who
had access to the room to which the
Soviet papers were taken, was man by
the name Of Nathan. I was told by one
of the raiding group that Mr.. Nathan
is chief of the British Secret Service In
America. Whether Nathan 10 back OF
Stevenson or Stevenson back Of Nathan
l do not know.
Beside Nathan there were only a
handful of others who had access to the
Soviet documents. Among them was a
private detective named Grunewald, q
banker by the name Of Proctor. Mr.. Con-
verse, who made the affidavits in the
case. and a man that goes by the name
of Mr.. Vanderpool. The significant
thing is that 30 far as know not Il
single member Of the Lusk committee
was present when was working over
the papers The whole thing seemed to
be the private affair Of Stevenson and
vexler charges that the raiders limited
at a frarneup themselves and that the
whole atmosphere at the Prince George
on the dav after the raid was so OBJ
noxious that he left the rooms and later
sent in his resignation.
At the quarters of the I. W. W. yes
terday all Was quiet. 4 score of men
loafed about the front part of the PREM
Uses In East Fourth street and in the
rear OF the assembly room a group was
gathered holding an earnest confab of
some sort. When one OF this number
left the group to talk to reporters he
was promptly summoned back in no I'M
certain terms. All he had time to say
OF the raiders was: They left nothing
but disorder and their own evil smell"
L. &. Chumley. editor OF The Rebel
" orker, the I. w. w. organ published
OH these premises. and the man TO whom
the Lusk committee gave It's receipt for
the property taken, explained that most
Of the members OF the I. W. w. yester-
day were on q peaceful picnic at Stelton,
n. ]. Mr.. Chumley was greatly shocked
because one OF the troopers who entered
the place on Saturday displayed q gun.
I'm all the raids I've been through, 81
said Chumley, that was the first gun I
haJ avar aAAn