Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-17
NO BoLsHEVIsM IN
 THE RAILROAD STRIKE

Washington. Apri! Is. = Attorney General Palmer's conclusions that the outlaw railway strike was traceable to activities of radicals and revolu- ] tionists was sharply challenged to- night in a statement issued by Frank Mf r1ison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor. An independent | invts tlgation of strike causes by the railway executives, the statement said. revealed just a plain. ordinary 1 strike for more pay.'
 If there were enough revolutionary i power in the United States to create su"n an outbreak as this,'' Mr. Morri $ )r said. the condition would be se- riSus indeed. But there is no such l power The absolute failure of the attorney general to grasp the true sit uation is amazing
 ] The department of justice had no | additional announcements to make to- night to support its conclusions. The cnly development of the day affecting the governments connection with the l strike situation was the organiZa tion meeting of the railway labor board. winch met with seven of it's nine mem ners present, elected officers and de- -ermlned to take up, beginning tomor- row the whole question of railway wages at the point where the bi- -parti-
 
 pioyers dropped it some days ago, un- able to reach a conclusion.
 While tactics of the rail strikers were wrong and disavowed by organ ized labor, MT. Morrisons statement said, this should not prevent an hon est" understanding of the facts. His
 own viewpoint as to causes of the strike, he added, was based on reports gathered by employers representa-
 tives not in sympathy with the strik- CTS.
 q point to these reports and the 1 evidence they contain as an evidence
 of governmental stupidity in dealins with the situation" MT, Morrison con
 tinued. While the government p through the attorney general, is con | templating repression and punishment s | treating the strike as a crime, the req l employers know that the strike is al q outbreak against economic conditions V After reading the digest of thes | reports. the conclusion is inevitabl
 that. whatever the merits of the strike
 it is chiefly just a plain,. ordinar |, strike for more pay"
 f New York and New England inves z tigators reported they had foun T the intelligent and conservative men. . | Mir. Morrison said Many of the strik 5 CTS have served for long periods 0 - one railroad. he added, and never, be !! fore were known as agitators. Othe
 observers found mo virus of disloyal
 ty or revolution in the ranks of tn :, disaffected workers except the usus ; evidence of extremists who are 'ridin, Il the strike as sometimes happens to |
 the case"
 It MT. Morrison declared the railroa l executives were fully informed" a T. t5 the character of the strike, an they know that the outbreak is unde no revolutionary direction"
 e According to data gathered by tt n employers from their representative o in close touch with the strike, '- throughout the country the state
 ment added, "the yardmen's walko, m is not of a revolutionary character ( '- origin. The fifteen men who made tl re report on which this conclusion e based are in close daily touch vii Id these men and are in their confdenc ,- The association which gathered il IS reports comes in intimate official COT Id tact with railway matters and is n;