Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-15
OFFICIALS UNCOVER |
ALLEGED SCHEME
OF: RUSSIAN BODY
Volunteers Help in Effort to.
Relieve CongeSted Condi-
tons in New Ydk-Ay-
rests in New Orleans


dence obtained by the department of
justice was said today to show-tnat
the Russian communist information
ale is undertaking to use the railA
road strike as the vehicle for the Gre
alton of a mass strike in the United
States. ,,.-,
Reports from federal agents wera
said to have disclosed that the COM
munist party was financing and 9TH
erwise aiding the strike through the
agency of the Industrial Workers of
the World, .f-
Evidence which the department
has received was declared to justify
the statement that the strike was TO
be merely q step in the well-known
plan Of the communist group and the
end and aim was mass strike TO be
followed by revolution.
Reports regarding the communist
internatiopale's part in the. strike
were understood to have been laid
| before President Wilson and the cab
met today by Attorney General
Palmer, but those present persisted
in their silence as to what decision
had been reached at the cabinet ,ses-
sion.
Summoned by President Wilson to-
| discuss the railroad strike, members
| Of his cabinet assembled promptly
at 10 O'Clock for their. first session
| since the nations head was taken
| i'll last fall.
While the days chief parley was
being held in the White House, 9TH
er meetings were being held from
! coast to coast in an effort to end the
tie-up affecting the nations bust
! ness.
| A meeting OF all strike leaders on
| the Pacific coast was to be held to-
| day in San Francisco, while in Jer-
sey City. where forces at conflict
in the New York district assembled
yesterday, further conferences were
being staged. -,- ;
While these efforts were being
made to induce the strikers to- re-
turn, railroads in all sections OF the
country were seeking to meet condi~
! lions resulting from the walkout,
Morning reports indicated that while
| in the west the peak had been met
and passed, IN the middle West and
New York district roads had diff
Guilty in doifg more than hold their
own.
New Members Attend
This was the first cabinet session
called by the president since he was
taken i'll last fall. and it was the
first to be attended by Secretaries
| Colby, Payne, Meredith and Alexan-
der, who have been appointed recent
ly.
BY arriving in an automobile, MIR.
Palmer eluded the newspaper corre-
spondents. Other members of the
cabinet would not discuss the meet,
ing in advance. 49,
While the cabinet was in session,
the senate interstate commerce com
mittee met to consider the nomina-
lions of the members of, the railroad
labor board which were sent to the
| senate yesterday. Action has been
deferred from yesterday as the COM
mittee desired to obtain more inforz
nation about the members.
| Decreasing supplies of food stocks
| in several large cities led the war
department last night to throw open
| to the public its large reserves of
! frozen and canned meats. Sales viii
be made through municipal and state
agencies at prices far less than those
prevailing in the open market. Off
| GERS have been especially detailed to
the work Of distribution.
ominous for Ohio
The industrial situation in Ohio
became more ominous today with
many out Of work in Columbus
and virtually every coal mine in the
state closed. A growing scarcity of
food supplies was reported in many
cities. A mail train was reported
to have been abandoned at Youngs-
town and the mail returned to the
postoffice. Hope of ending the
switChmen's strike at Columbus fad
ed when roadmen voted not to act
as strikebreakers.
| A meeting of all strike leaders on
the Pacific coast was called for to-
day in San Francisco.
VOLUNTEERS RUSH In TO
BREAK NEW YORK STRIKE
NEW YORK. April 14.-Oficials Of
! the big four" railroad brotherhoods
renewed their efforts today to bring
| to an end the unauthorized rail
! strikes in this district, while thou
| sands of volunteer railroaders pour
ed in offers of their services to break
the traffic tie-up, which was paralyz-
! ing most of the lines entering New
York. -
Although initial peace overtures
were unanimously rejected by the
strikers in Jersey City last night, the
| brotherhood leaders expected to re-
new their proposal that the strikerg
return to work and submit their
| grievances to the new railroad labor
| board, appointed yesterday by Pres
| ident Wilson. ,'.s'',
In accepting the offer Of college
| students, former soldiers and citi-
zens to operate trains, railroad Off
| Gals declared that the attitude OF
the public would bring the strike to-
speedy close. ~,
Body Found in River, -
Five Men Are Hello
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April 14-x"
Four negroes and a white man nave
| been arrested in Montgomery county,
| pending investigation following the
! finding in the Cumberland river six
miles below GAINESVILLE Monday CT
the body of W. Frank Smith, thirty
| six years of age, who disappeared
April with $1,000 in cash Gil his