New-York tribune., 1919-06-26
Lusk Investigators Learn
Each Helped Other and
Pamphlets We're Mailed
for Propaganda Purpose
l. W. W. Strength Barred
Documents Reveal That Or.
ganization Is in Control
of 100 Trade Unions

AA0 AuoA JV1Nt Legislative COulM1CCeo
investigating Bolshevism and seditious
activities will hold Q session at 1O:30
o'clock this morning at the City Hall.
Evidence of the activities of the Rand
School in East Fifteenth Street, and
its relations with the Russian Soviet
Bureau will be submitted.
Bureau Aided School
It appears from papers dis
covered that the soviet headquar-
ters ordered for propaganda pur-
poses a Quantity of pamphlets pro-
duced by the Rand School, and the
soviet furnished the Rand School a
mailing list of its supporters. The
Rand School sent in bill for these
pamphlets, but the bureau objected
to paying, on the ground that the mail
ing list, containing many names, fur
nished the school should Offset the
charge for the pamphlets, as the names
were those of possible converts and
supporters of the Rand School.
the Rand School legacy of $4,000,
which legacy was contested by the
relatives of the deceased. To square
accounts, the soviet headquarters pro-
posed to lend the Rand School legal
counsel to fight for this legacy.
Documents captured in the raid on
the |. W. w. headquarters indicate
that in the country as a whole there
are fifty-two l.. w. w. publications,
seven of them being under cover, with
an aggregate daily circulation of 75O.-
600.
Control 100 Trade Unions
The documents tend to show that
the l. w. w. control a majority of the
members in 100 trade unions, and that
when they are ready to strike they can
tie up the industries of the country
If they all hang together. The method
used was to get one |. W. w. into
trade union and for that one member
to give all his spare time to his par
ticular factory in behalf of the I. w.
w. propaganda.
Senator Lusk was asked if the COM
mlttee planned to pay any attention to
Eamcnn de Valera, the "President of
the Irish Republic" in view of his ac-
tlvities against friendly ally of the
United States in time of war After
asking who De Valera was, Senator
Lusk said:
activities do not come within the pur-
view of the committee-s work. It would
seem to me that if the Federal govern
ment discovers. that De Valera is vio-
lating the sedition laws it will take
action on it's own part"
Radicalism Is Analyzed
In a prepared statement Senator
Lusk said:
There is big radical element on
every hand. To go at the matter in
telligently we must separate this rad
ical element into its proper classi-
fiscations. Worst of all is the willful
and deliberate or insane extremist who
believes in the bomb and other forms
of wanton destruction. Along with him
is the man who would set aside all of
the laws and beliefs that have been
handed down to us since the days of
Washington and overflow our govern
ment by violence and revolution. There
is Only one way to deal with this rad
lcal element. Whatever force is neces-
sary on the part of the government
must be used to protect our institu-
tions and the persons and property
OF our citizens from violence.
"The best of the radical element is
comprised of men who feel that there
are many existing wrongs in our coun-
try and who brood over what they con-
slider to be these wrongs and who
want to see them remedied. This ap-
pears to be a growing class. These
are the men to whom we should give
consideration and attention.
Wrongs Breed Unrest
"There seems to be a pretty general
belief among even the most moderate
radicals, with which l personally agree.
that there is not decent division of
the dollar; that labor is not getting a
fair division Of the profits earned by
the combination of capital and labor.
If there is not decent division Of the
dollar the condition must not be per-
mitted to continue, breeding unrest and
dissatisfaction in a land whose re-
sources and wealth and government
have in them the greatest possibilities
of any nation.
"Some of the laboring men tell me
that they now realize the fallacy of the
ordinary wage increasing programme,
which is almost Immediately met by an
increased cost of living, which in many
cases more than offsets the increased
wages.
"The large body Of radicals, so far
as l have been able to learn, have no
objection to the rich man having a
great deal out of life. They do not
object to his having a fine estate or
a yacht or his motor cars. But they
think that some course should and can
be found SO that the rich man can get
all Of the necessary pleasures out of