Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-04-23
Attorney General Sees Red Plot
in Rail Strike and Orders Ar
rest of Many Radicals.
LABOR TROUBLES IN KANSAS
Prospect Of Anarchy in ireland Brings
Factions Into Closer Union-Stronq
Military Measures In Turkey
Sonora Secedes From
Mexico-German coaIi-
tion Government
on Trial.
BY E. +. CLlPSON.

AS foreshadowed by the general ap-
pearance of the railway strike from
its beginning and pointed out in the
previous issue of this review, the
Ethiopian concealed in the woodpile
mas been the American I. W. W., fos-
tered, supported and directed by the
Moscow Third Internationale If this
is not true then the United States de-
partment of justice with its 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 a dictatorship of the proletariat
such as exists in Russia. One of its
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 a powerful weapon, an oligarchy
of labor would be possible. The 1.
| w. W. is committed to these views,
hence its fight to disrupt the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor which stands
for collective bargaining and the pres
ervation of contractual rights between
employers and employees. Observers
| everywhere have been pointing to the
traceable effects of communistic prop
| aganda in the disturbed conditions all
over Europe and the strikes and rum
| blings in America. Wherever the doc.
| trines have gained ascendency, as in
Russia, Hungary, portions Of the Bal.
kans and recently in part Of Ger
many, terrible conditions and In some
cases actual chaos have resulted.
Attorney General Palmer reports
that evidence in his hands proves tina,
William T. Foster, leader of the late
steel strike, and other prominent rad
icals, have been the concealed brain:
back of the rail strike. The govern
ment's announcement was followed b,
prompt action in issuing federal war
rants for a number Of the active lead
ers of the strike. The warrant
charged violation Of section 2 of tn
wartime Lever law.
Before the issuance Of the warrant
and the determination to take drasti
action had been announced, the gov
erment's disclosures had begun t
have an effect on the strike and it
early collapse, or at least gradua
death was anticipated. Even befor
the disclosures from Washington al
improvement in the situation wa
manifest in the West, although acut
in New York and some other portion
of the East. In Chicago where tn
strike started and in other parts o
the West, railroad men who had bee
enticed by the "outlaw" movement. be
again to the counsels Of their oil
leaders. This was having a gradua
effect in the restoration of traffic an
normal conditions.
The new railway labor board at
thorized by the Cummins-Esch LAY
and appointed by the president, wi
now have the arduous duty of review
ing the whole railway labor question
relative to wages, hours of emplo,
ment, working conditions, etc. Out {
the great volume of testimony
which it will listen and all the dat
compiled, it is called upon to find
solution which will be equitable to th