The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-26
LUSK ASKS REDS TO.
HELP CALM UNREST
Agrees the Dollar Is Not Just
ly Divided Between Capt.
tai and Labor. a"
PROBERs TRACING FUNDS
Link Trotsky's Wife With
Source of Revenue-So-
cialists Plan Coup.

| &OSo - ANhA OVoRs
A statement distinctly conciliatory to.
ward the radicals and presaging q
change in the methods of the Legislative
Investigating Committee, was issued BY
its chairman. Senator Clayton r. Luse
last night
| I'VE are here" said Senator Luslt, "tc
ascertain the causes of discomfort al
well as the persons and organizations
guilty of sedition and anarchy. II
| thought the offices of ]. p. Morgan were
being used for purposes subversive Of
our institutions, as were those OF the
! radicals we have raided, would raid
| Morgan's Office too"
The committee intends to call all rad
icals to give their views. followed by
| capitalists and others. Senator LusA
says he agrees with those radicals who
believe the dollar is not at present Justly
] divided between capital and labor. He
1 mentions social and industrial legisla.
ton and increased taxation of capital
| as possible remedies, and calls on both
| radicals and reactionafies to help the
committee formulate programme for
| New York State that will lead the way
Senator Lusk also made It clear that
the COMMITTEES would not concern itself
with the activities of Eamon de Valera,
| President of the Irish republic, now In
| New York. Asked whether the efforts
Of De Valera and his supporters against
the British Government did not come
within the scope Of the committee a
works he replied:
who Is De valera?"
I'LL AN..A ~
committee would not concern itself with
him.
Tracing Source of Funds.
In the meanwhile, II is learned, the
committee is not lessening Its efforts
| with regard to the conditions already
uncovered. Direct connection between
! the Soviet bureau. the Rand School and
other American radical centres has been
established by the Investigators, and the
sources Of the bureaus funds are re-
ported to have been traced through
camoufiaged business firms to neutrai
countries and possibly TO the wife OF
Trotzky. Evidence has been uncovered
that the 1. w. w, controls a startling
proportion OF labor organizations
through majority of it's members
within their ranks, silently hiding the
time for the revolution.
| The Left Wing conference Of radicals,
In session here during the last three
days. II Is learned. has set out to cap
ture the whole Socialist party for the
revolution. The conference passed. In
fammatory resolutions and established
its first workers council on a national
scale. A resolution to expel all capt.
talists from the party, however. met with
defeat when the debate revealed that
1 81 inr t,tA~ tn 10
Lenine, Trotzky, John Reed and others
| in the convention here.
After abiding to the assertions, ne
says have been made to him by labor
| men to the effect that their programme
OF securing increased wages has been
fruitless because increases have Been
promptly followed by increases in the
| cost OF living, Senator Lusk's state.
Inent says that the clerical and profes.
sional classes have suffered the cost in.
crease without any increase In wages
and incomes.
Lusk Suggests Remedies.
Senator Lusk mentions as possible
remedies for the complaint that the dol
lar is not justly divided between its
lowing suggestions:
! 1. Further profit sharing arrange
ments as already instituted by some
large corporations.
2. Provision for State supervision of
housing. clothing. feeding for the work
ers.
| s. Relief OF the worker from some OF
the worries of modern life through GER
tain forms OF insurance.
! I. Heavier taxation of capital to pay
for the expenses in such a programme.
! Concluding his statement, Senator
Lusk said:
| zone principal trouble seems to be
that many OF the reactionaries regard
/ the radicals as lunatics. and so many
radicals regard the reactionaries as be-
ing entirely mercenary and heartlesa
We hope they will Interchange their
views through our COMMITTEES. - Correc-
tion must be accomplished by men who
believe in and revere the institutions
of representative government. The men
OF the capitalist class who are not merely
rich but are big and 'brainy, and the
men Of the radical class who are not
loud meuthed but big and brainy, have
before them the task of readjustmeni
that will perpetuate and save our coun.
TRY. The services OF our committee are
entirely at the disposal of these men,"
Throughout the statement Senator
Lusk draws a clear distinction between
the radicals who would overthrow the
whole system by violence because OF
their difficulties and those who are
merely disseminated and seeking pos
sibly q proper change. He believes tho
raids already made have been Justified
that sedition has been found in all tn,
four places raided. and he insists that
prosecution will be pressed in each case
Find Radical Connections.
When the committee resumes It's oper
| sessions to-day much of the materla
which has been gathered in the raids
on the Soviet bureau. the Rand School
the Left Wing Socialists and the I. w
w. will be put into evidence before the
committee. The most important phase OF
| the material Is understood to be that
a connection between all the raided
places has been established. The com.
mittee's investigators have learned. fol
instance, that tho Russian Soviet bu-
reau secured much OF its literature from
the Rand School. VI
| Correspondence shows tracts were sent
to various addresses by the Rand School
| on the order OF the Soviet bureau. When
| a bill for these tracts was presented to
: A. A. Heller OF the Soviet bureau he is
alleged to have refused to pay for II
/ on the ground that the Soviet was mere
ly supplying the school with a list OF
good customers.
II is further learned that when the
Rand School was engaged In recent
litigation through which 1t was en-