The sun., 1919-07-12
.LUSK'S MEN TO HIT
UPSTATE RED TRAIL
Bolshevik Agitators Said to Be
Active in Many Of the
Larger Cities.
RAND TRIAL DATE JULY 20
Untermyer Suspects Papers
Seized in Raid Were Made
Public by Committee.

The Lusk legislative committee will be
able probably to take up the trail of
Bolshevism upstate week after next.
Reports received from investigators who
Rave been at work there are being
whipped into shape SO rapidly that the
committee may be able to lay out some
| sort of a schedule for the upstate cities
that win enable the investigators to 20
from one to the other in order to lay
bare the situation outside New York city
before returning here again.
Although the committee has given no
hint of what has been discovered by its
agents. It is understood from other
| sources that some of the cities have been
found to be fertile fields for the spread
of radical doctrines. This is particularly
true in the larger Industrial centres. II
is said.
From the first the committee had
planned TO hold hearings in Schenectady,
Syracuse. Rochester and Buffalo. It Ia
not improbable that Utica and Troy may
be added to the list. When Senator
Clayton r. Lusk, chairman Of the COM
mittee. returns from his fishing trip next
week he will 60 over the reports Of the
Investigators and map out the upstate
campaign.
Trial Of the States suit for annul-
ment Of the charter Of the American
Socialist Society. which operates the
Rand School and book store, will be-
gin Monday, July 2s. before Justice
McAvoy in the Supreme Court Mean
time Attorney General Newton will not
press his application for an injunction
closing the school and store pending
the trial decision.
This agreement was reached before
Justice McAvoy yesterday after consul
tation between Samuel Berger. Deputy
and Samuel Inter
myer. counsel for the Socialist society.
Mr.. Berger said he was ready to 60
to trial in week. Mr.. Untermyer re-
piled that he had to go to Washington
on Monday to discuss the prohibition
bin before the Senate judiciary Com
mittee and then, on Doctors orders.
would have to take q short rest AT
White Sulphur Springs He asked for
and Mr.. Berger agreed to give a bill
Of particulars covering such points AZ
Just how and when the Rand School ie
alleged to have tried to bring about q
revolution by unlawful means.
Mr.. Untermyer asked also that all
the papers seized in the raid on the
school be taken over by the court and
not given to the Lusk Commute. which.
he said. ''sits behind closed doors and
after secret hearings gives out type
written statements to the newspapers"
Justice McAvoy said:
"All the papers that have been and
are to be used In this case must re-
main In the custody Of this court and
are not to be given out by any one"
In the course Of the colloquy Mr..
Berger said: I'VE haven't given out
any statements"
Then we have on the New York
newspapers the best fiction writer's of
the age" said Mr.. Untermyer. The
fact is. all the stories are 80 similar
that all must have been furnished by
the same source"
Four men taken after a raid Thursday
night on the headquarters of the Anal
gamated Textile Workers Of America In
Paterson. N. J.. were held for the Grand
Jury in $1,000 bail apiece by Recorder
Abram Kienert yesterday on a charge
Of advocating the overthrow Of the Gov
eminent by force. They are Robert w.
Dunn. organiser for the union; Evan w.
Thomas, secretary of the union Henry
Berger. a silk worker. and Louis Stein.
Chief Of Police Tracey has forbidden
the organization to hold meetings in
Paterson on the ground that II has in
dorsed the Soviet Government In Rus
STA Hence the raid when a meeting
was attempted.
Dunn and Stein were arrested yester-
day morning when they went to Police
Headquarters to claim papers of the or
ganization that had been seized.