Arizona republican., 1920-04-17
PALMER CHARGES UNF FOUNDED SAYS UNION OFFICER
No Disloyalty Virus in Ranks of Workers Says Morri- son Following Strike Probes in Many Sections of Nation-Scores Attor- ney General
Republican A. p. Leased Wire1

WASHINGTON, April 16.-Attorney General Palmer's conclusions that the outlaw railway strike was traceable to activities of radicals and revolu- tionists was sharply challenged tonight in a statement issued by Frank Morri- son, secretary of the American Feder- ation of Labor. An independent in vestigation of strike causes by the rail- way executives, the statement said, re- vealed ''just a plain. ordinary strike for more pay"
 If there were enough revolutionary power in the United States to create such an outbreak as this" Mir. Morri- son said, the condition would be ser ious indeed. But there is no such power. The absolute failure of the attorney general to grasp the true sit- nation is amazing"
 Railway Labor Board Meets
 The department of justice had no additional announcements to make to- night to support its conclusions. The only development of the day affecting the governments connection with the strike situation was the organization meeting of the railway labor board, which met with seven Of it's nine mem bers present, elected officers and de- terInined to take up, beginning tomor-
 
 wages at the point where the bi-par- tisan discussion between men and em- ployers dropped it some days. ago. un- able to reach conclusion.
 While tactics of the railroad strikes were wrong and disavowed by organ said this should not prevent an honest understanding of the facts. His own viewpoint as to causes of the strike, he added, was based on reports gathered by employers representatives not in sympathy with the strikers.
 T point to these reports and the evidence they contain an evidence Of governmental stupidity in dealing with the situation, MT. Morrison con- tinued. While the government templating repression and punishment, treating the strike as a crime, the real employers know that the strike is an outbreak against economic conditions
 After reading the digest of these re- ports, the conclusion is evident that whatever the merits of the strike, it is chiefly just plain ordinary strike for more pay
 Few Radicals Behind Strike
 New York and New England investi- gators reported they had found strike sentiment strongest among the intelli- gent and conservative men," MT. Mor rison said. Many of the strikers have served for long periods on one railway. he added, and never before were known as agitators. Other observers found mo virus of disloyalty or revolution in the ranks of the disaffected workers except the usual evidence of extremists who are riding the strike as some times happens to be the case
 Mir. Morrison declared the railroad executives were fully informed" as to the character of the strike and they know that the outbreak is under no revolutionary direction"
 According to data gathered hy the 1 employers from their representatives in close touch with the strikers 1 throughout the country" the statement | added the yardmen's walkout is not | of a revolutionary origin.
 "The Is men who made the report | on which this conclusion is based are | in close touch with these men and are | in their conference. The association | which gathered the reports comes in intimate official contact with railway | matters and is national in scope. It is not at all in sympathy with the strikers or their point of view
 "A digest of these reports shows that | in all localities the reasons advanced | by the strikers for their action are startlingly alike. Everyone of our in- vestigators.' the digest says, is firmly convinced that so far as his territory is concerned, the strike is all-Anerican and entirely devoid of bolshevism or I. w. Wism and that mp to the end of last week the radical element was not in evidence at all !"