The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-04-15
PIN HOPE ONNEW
RAIL WAGE BODY
Voluntary Return to Work
Expected Result Exposure
Radical Leadership.
W. z. FOSTER INVOLVED

Washington. Apri 15.--(A. P.)--Fed.
erm officials today were watching TO
the effect upon the railroad strikers o
the disclosure that the same radica
forces which melted the unsuccessful
steel strike. ws,ss.hbehnd ths presen
|effoft % tIs mp Transportation tacilities
Rsports fhe agents of the depart.
naeait OF justice that William y, FOSTER
a leader In the steel strike; CarI Piersor
and other radical agitators Ma beer
positively identified as n,oviiH spirit.
in the countrywide unrest am4tg traira..
men. were expected 10 90 fIf towa,S =
enlightening the rank eudN Tile a
strikers as to thsstrue mspni{fE OF
movement. MI s-~~
Fosters Hand RsSs.Iss
The evidence in the. halss,ff Atty
Gen. Palmer shows that rster was
present AZ Union meetings wy4cb were
adjourned 10 meet In other Calls, not
as organisations. but as iSNiyiduals
MIR. Palmer also said that EeX Piersor
and A. r. Reese. both Of who VI the de-
partment's investigators have piaced In
the category with Foster. ware Engaged
in attempts TO expand the stfike and
we're definitely connected with planntne
MI. Palmer saise
As this phase OF the situation became
known President Wilson met Ahis cabi-
net for the aIprst ime since last Au-
gust. sThe whole story" Of the strike
was related, and 1t was understood a
decision was then reached to seek q
solution through the publication of the
motives behind the walkout. the strik-
ers being assured at the same time OF
early consideration Of any wage de-
mands they may have by the railway
labor board.
Mr. Palmer made public evidence OF
plans prepared by Foster and his ad-
herents to disrupt the four great broth
erhoods and to organize all rail work
ers into one union. Seized documents
also revealed a similar course was to
have been followed In various other
industries where crafts aligned with
the American Federation Of Labor
would be urged to reorganize under
one name.
Positive Proof.
Z I'VE have positive proof of the plans
for this expansion Mr. Palmer said
II know the dates fixed for nationwide
strikes In other industries and our in
vestigators have discovered that the
fermentation of these outbursts has gone
on exactly as in theefailread strike"
The whole program was one phase
sof the plans Of the Russian radicals
Essdesigned at the ultimate capture of
Industry, the overthrow OF government
ana the setting UP of dictatorship like
that In chaotic Russia" Mr.. Palmer
said. Workers were being led unwit-
tingiy into the trap set for them. he
added, through the Industrial Workers
Of the World. The communist inter-
ma zi8f1t{leA-a hNafiet< by Eenine aDfi eTrDtzr
lsy:-.was attacking Americas Industrial
lifese, Federal agents had intercepted
n cpjlrfer from Russia March l., he said,
bearing messages to American locals
OF the communists, detailing methods
OF organizing class war.
Following the collapse OF the steel
strike. Mr.. Palmer said. Foster Pier
son, Reese and others of their asso-
ciates, of the revolutionary parties en-
gagged in the endeavor to promote the
present strike"
''Lists Of all railroad men who were
members of the communist or COM
munist labor parties were sought" he
said 1.-THE names of all railroad work.
ers who were opposed to the present
management OF the four brotherhoods
also were collected Meetings were
held In hotels In New York and Chi
cago and other cities where all OF the
plans were laid.
Basic Agitation.
THE basic agitation Of these leaders
WAS the Haaf rtIrt inn of tha railroad