The New York herald., 1920-01-07
RAIDS FAIL To
CRUSH SED|T|ON,
SAYS Mr.. kUSk
Surface of Trouble Is Only
Scratched, so Far, Ayers
Legislative investigator.

Moro than twenty thousand alien enc
fnies in the Communist party OF New Yorl
State alone are openly organized for over
violence under the direction of Bolshevis
leaders in Russia, declared Senator Clay
Ton r. Lusl1, chairman OF the Joint legis
lative committee investigating seditoui
activities. In addition to these there art
the Communist Labor party and "othel
evolutionary organizations working ac'
lively to accomplish the same ends, az
well as many other bodies which agree
with their principles and encourage theii
activities without participating openly II
them. the Senator said
while much has been done in the State
of New York by federal, State and Local
authorities to retard the revolutionary
movement, it is imperative that we should
not be lulled into sense of false security
by exaggerated statements of what has
been accomplished" continued Senator
Lusk.
Statements to the effect that the back
bone of the radical revolutionary move
rnent Is broken and that we have reached
the beginning of the decline of organized
rabid revolutionaryism throughout the
country are absurd.
ssurface of Evil Only Scratched"
The arrests already made in the State
on the charge of criminal anarchy and fol
deportation hardly scratch the surface OF
the situation. There are revolutionary or
Sanizations throughout all parts OF the
State.
''These organizations have been per-
mitted to reach such proportions that IT
- -f... hat ~
destroyed is for the loyal citizens in each
community to perfect such organization
as is necessary to cooperate with the
federal, State and local authorities in un-
covering and prosecuting these traitors or
much the same lines as they organized and
worked during the war to discover and ap-
nrehend traitors and gave their support tc
the government in that crisis"
Tho Saturday night raids on the radical
newspapers Elore, Communist World
Rebitnik and Der Kampf Struck at the
very source and fountain head Of Com
munism' in New York city, said Senator
Lusk Through these lurid Sheets" he
continued, "the leaders Of Communism at
eempt to gain converts and spread theiI
doctrine of class struggle and revolution
1T was disclosed that in Rochester
Sunday school meetings were being held
for the purpose Of disseminating radical
propa ganda, and a bank book OF the So
cialist Sunday school held there disclosed
that the public schools of Rochester were
being used for radical meetings. At one OF
these meetings a resolution was passed
that ten thousand COPIES of Lenine's Let
ter to the American Workingmen' should
be printed and distributed. Among the
men seized by the committee in their
rpund-ups were some of the leaders Of the
Communist movement in the upper part oi
the State"
Spread I'm Letters from Europe.
The Senator asserted that millions OF
men and women in different parts OF
Europe who are engaged in anarchy
and revolution and advocate the destruc-
ton of government, including that OF
the United States. are communicating
with their relatives and friends In
America who are being converted tc
anarchistic and revolutionary beliefs
THE increasing tide of extreme radical
ism in Europe is accompanied by a cor
rcsponding increase of extreme radical
ism here" he added.
THE raids In Buffalo, Rochester and
i-tIca on Communists on the night OF
December 90 last disclosed the existence
~ well organized plans of tho Com
,nunist party to spread the teachingz
=, communism I'm those cities and sur
rounding territory" said Senator Lusk