Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-17
PROP GANDAOF
REDS IS CAUSE
MANY STRIKES
Government Learns From Con-
fidential Sources Radical
Agitators Attempting to
Bring About Revolt.
BY HUGH BAILLIE.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent.
Washington, d. c., Oct. 17.-Radical
agitators are working to gain control
OF thousands of men on strike IN
America today, and of the thousands
m re who are threatening to strike.
according to INFORMATION by the gov
eminent from confidential sources.
The purpose of these radicals is said
TO be to lead the strikers In an indus
trial revolt that would border on a po-
plitical revolt.
Their propaganda is held responsible
for many of the unauthorized strikes
The fact that President Wilson Is
I'll. that his confidential adviser. Colo
mel House Is i'll, and that Samuel Com
pers, president of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor and foe OF extreme rad
icalism, is in very poor health and la
BILE to suffer breakdown. makes the
situation even more difficult for the
government to handle.
HOPE IN CONFERENCE.
The national industrial conference
now in session in Washington was
looked upon by many officials as a
dam against the flood of industrial
difficulties Even now that the con-
ference appears to be having some diff
ficulty in making progress, great de-
pendence is being placed in it. Admin
dstration officials predict that after
many clashes and when it looks as If
there were a deadlock the delegates re-
alizing the vital Importance of bring
ing forth something constructive. will
get together at the finish and produce
remedy.
Many strikes are being held up wait
ing for the conference to do some
thing. It's collapse, therefore, might
result in very grave situation, in the
belief of many delegates.
The labor tangle has been placed
arn1x hat Drac n q
cabinet. This was done at the last
meeting, it was learned at the White
House. The cabinet officers are going
over it this week. 1t is likely to be
the principal matter before the cabi-
net at its meeting next Tuesday.
A BAD SYMPTOM.
Unauthorized strikes are viewed by
labor officials, cabinet members and
congressman alike as a bad symptom.
Rail Director Hines has warned B. M.
Jewell acting president of the railway
employees department of the American
Federation of Labor that they were
creating the basis for an argument
that it is nonsense to recognize labor
rganiZations and to try to deal with
them. w. G.. Lee of the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen sees in these
strikes an indication that the radicals
are breaking the grip of the conserva.
tive American Federation of Labor OF
days Lee said he felt as If he wer.
sitting over a volcano" in his owl
organization.
Senator Poindexter has taken tn,
lead in congress in insisting that step.
be taken at once to prevent revolution
he believes the government is in dan.
ger now, and that international agita
tors are responsible Poindexter wants
to know, in a senate resolution while
Attorney General Palmer is not de.
porting agitators.
Continued high prices are creatine
diescontent and making workers, or.
dinarily law abiding, more ready t.
listen to radical leaders, in the opinion
of Lee and other delegates to the in
dustrial conference Some measure,
asked by President Wilson and Palme
to enable government agencies to ge
at the profiteers have been passed b,
congress, but others have not and ii
the latter category Is included a re
quest for an appropriation to conduc
the campaign.