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out the country in which he had COL
lected $4,000 In cash and $50 pledges
Of $t2 each.
The only connection that this sort
OF testimony may have with the work
OF the Lusk committee Ia to show some
OF the social activities Of persons who
are also conKected with the radical
groups against whom the inquiry Is
directed.
In a statement issued last night, Mrs.
y. II. Maily. executive director OF the
Rand School, denied a number of state-
ments and differences placed In the
record OF the Lusk committee on FRI
day. In regard to the payment Of $50
70 scott Nearing In one month, she said
that 1t happened that money due to
him for work covering a long period of
time reached him In one month, which
was the last Of the schools fiscal year.
None OF the persons employed In the
school, either In Its executive or teach
ing departments" she said, receives
anything more than a modest salary,
Indeed, many of those who render SER
vice to the school get much less than
they could In other institutions for
similar services
Much has been made before the
committee by witnesses and by Chair
man Lusk and others. OF statements al
legged to have been made in correspon-
denoe OF a person formerly connected
with the school to the effect that the
workers must be prepared to take over
the Government, the insinuation being
that the intention Is to take over the
State BY means OF q violent and bloody
revolution, whereas. as a matter OF
TACT. no such Interpretation can be
placed upon that statement by ANYBODY
having an intelligent understanding OF
the Socialist programme, which Is that
OF peaceful political action"
Domingo IL Discredited,
Mrs. Mailly said that w. A. Domingo.
who wrote the memorandum on teaching
Socialism to negroes, never had any con-
nection directly or indirectly with the
Rand School He had sent his manu-
script to d. p. Berenberg of the publica-
ton committee to sec II 1t would be ac-
cepted for publication. As a matter of
fact, Mrs. Mailly said, the director had
asked that the manuscript be sent back
to the writer with the statement that II
was not available for publication.
These are the real facts" she as
serted. but for reasons best known to
itself the committee permitted its wit
nesses TO distort and misstate the facts /"
In regard to the inference that the
Russian Soviet Bureau had supplied
names to which the Rand School should
send literature. Mrs. Mailly said that her
bill to s. Nuortova, secretary of the
Soviet Mission. was dated in August,
1918. whereas the bureau had not been
organised until the spring of 1919.
As for differences that the Soviet Blu
reau was obtaining free counsel for the
Rand School. contained In a letter from
A. A. Heller, Mrs. Mailly said that Mr.
Heller was connected with the Rand
School as well as the Soviet Bureau.
while the Rand School feels highly
outraged at the unwarranted assault
made upon II by the Lusk Committee
and its alleged agents." Mrs. Mailly said
land resents the Prussian and Czarist
methods used in attempting to crush It.
1t proposes TO present its side and to
state its case to the courts Of this State
when 1t becomes necessary. standing fat
footedly on the laws and constitutions OF
the State OF New York and the United
States"