d-class mail privileges canceled for
disloyalty.

"Under the second head may be mentioned the fact that the
investigations of the Lusk Committee showed that the Socialist
incitement to lawlessness prevalent throughout the country was
largely due to the propaganda of the Rand School of Socialism, a
New York Corporation of which two of the Socialist Assemblymen were
members. Furthermore, the American Socialist Society, the
corporation that owns and conducts the Rand School, had been
convicted under the Espionage Act before the United States District
Court and heavily fined by Judge Julius M. Mayer.

"These were some of the facts and charges which were matters of
public record and public knowledge when the Assembly of 1920
convened. We submit, therefore, that if the Assembly had not taken
action as it did, it would have been derelict in its duty.

"We therefore recommend:

"1. That all loyal organizations pass, publish and file with this
Committee resolutions in acknowledgment of the service rendered by
the New York Assembly and in encouragement of similar action by the
Legislatures of other states.

"2. That individuals affirm this judgment in suitable ways, and
particularly by letters to the press in their localities.

"3. That all loyal individuals and organizations co-operate to give
the whole American people the exact facts concerning the conspiracy
of radicals against our Government and institutions.

"To this end we propose to continue the work of education by
permanent organization under the name of 'Publicity Committee
Against Socialism.'"[M]

The above list of Socialist convictions for lawbreaking will be found
completely confirmed, on Socialist authority, in Trachtenberg's Labor
Year Book, 1919-1920, pages 92-103.

Was this record questioned by the Socialist defense at Albany? In no
wise; it could not be. Was the record faced, the guilt of the
lawbreakers confessed, and their transgressions deplored as acts of
disloyalty which the Socialist Party now condemns and repudiates? Not at
all. These acts were freshly confirmed, and taken anew upon the
Socialist Party, by brazen justification of them at Albany and
condemnation of the laws, juries and courts of the American people.

We have seen how Hillquit on the witness stand justified the disloyal
and violently revolutiona