Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1920-04-22
Attorney General Sees Red Plot
in Rail Strike and Orders Ar
rest Of Many Radicals.
LABOR TROUBLES IN KANSAS.
Prospect Of Anarchy In ireland Brinoa
Factions Into Closer Union-stronu
Military Measures In Turkey
Sonora secedes From
Msxico-oerman coaIi-
tlon Government
on Trial.
BY E. F. cLlPsoN.

I A. 1oreshad0Wed by the general ap-
,pearance Of the railway strike from
Its beginning and pointed out in the
lprevi0us issue Of this review, the
Ethiopian concealed In the woodpile
has been the American I. w. W., fos-
tered, supported and directed by the
Moscow Third 1nternationale. If this
lie not true then the United States de-
spartment Of justice with it's secret
service. Its mass Of data and all its
splendid facilities for gathering infor-
nation and evidence, has gone woeful-
'ly astray.
The Third Internationale is the
branch, Of the communistic govern
ment Of Russia devoted to interna-
tional propaganda and organization and
pledged to the cause Of overthrow
ing the existing order in America and
throughout the world. Its principal
aim is to promote revolutionary class
struggle and establish wherever pos
sible dictatorship Of the proletariat
such as exists in Russia. One of it's
objects, entering into the dreams Of
all radicals, is the organization of all
workmen, everywhere, into one big
union. With such an organization and
such powerful weapon, an oligarchy
of labor would be possible. The l.
Nv. W., ts committed to these views,
hence Its fight to disrupt the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor which stands
for collective bargaining and the pres
ervati0n Of contractual rights between
employers and employees. Observers
everywhere have been pointing to the
traeeable effects Of communistic prop
aganda In the disturbed conditions ali
over Europe and the strikes and rum
billings in America. Wherever the doc.
trines have gained ascendency, as in
Russia, Hungary, portions of the Bal
kans and recently in a part of Ger.
many, terrible conditions and in some
eases actual chaos have resulted !,
/ Attorney General Palmer reports
/ that evidence In his hands provessthat
William Q. Foster, leader Of the late
steel strike, and other prominent rad.
fcals, have been the concealed brains
back Of the rail strike. The govern.
ment's announcement was followed by
prompt action in issuing federal war.
rants for number Of the active lead
ers Of the strike. The warrants
charged violation Of section 2 of the
wartime Lever law.
Before the issuance Of the warrants
and the determination to take drastic
action had been announced, the gov.
,erment's disclosures had begun to
have an effect on the strike and Its
! early collapse, or at least gradual
death was anticipated. Even before
! the disclosures from Washington an
Improvement In the situation was
! manifest in the West, although acute
In New York and some other portions
Of the East. In Chicago where the
strike started and in other parts Of
the West, railroad men who had been
enticed by the Outlaw movement, be.
gan to see signs Of trap and to turn
| again to the counsels Of their old
leaders. This was having gradual
effect in the restoration Of traffic and
normal conditions.
The new railway labor board au.
thorized by the Cummins- Esch law
and appointed by the president, will
now have the arduous duty of review.
4 tng the whole railway labor question,
relative to wages, hours of employ.
nsnt working. conditions, etc. Out Of
~ great volume Of testimony to
which It win listen and all the data
tceppiled. It b called upon to find
[ Iasegaoe which w,ll be equitable to the