Arizona republican., 1920-04-14
Nominates Labor Board

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 The president also sent to the sem ate today the nominations of the nine men representing employers, employees and the public whom he has selected to compose the labor board provided under the transportation act to deal with railroad labor disputes. The men selected were:
 Representing the pubIic-George W. Hangar, Washington, D. C.; Henry Hunt, Cincinnati: R. M. Barton, Ten neSSee.
 Representing the railroad corpora tions-7 Horace Baker. J. H. Elliott and William l.. Park.
 Representing the employes-Albert Phillips, A. O. Wharton and J. J. For rester.
 The nominations were Immediately referred to the interstate commerce committee, which is expected to take action on them tomorrow.
 The board will be called by the pres- ident without delay and was expected to meet in Washington, where exist ing government machinery for the handling of wage matters is at it's disposal and would permit it to get into action promptly to deal with the strike situation.
 MT. Palmer, when he goes to the cabinet meeting tomorrow. will have available a very large number of re- ports from his agents at strike centers which are known to deal specifically
  the strike movement. He will be able to show the president and the cabinet that, through the agency of the I. w. w., relationship has been established between the strikers newly formed or ganization-the Railway Workers union-and the "One Big union." as the Canadian railroad organization. in cluding I. w. w. memberships known. He will also be able to dis close through official reports that John Grunau. head of the Chicago Yard mems association. the members of which were the first in the country to quit their posts. will be suppIanted by an active member of the I. w. W.
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 Propaganda of I. w. w origin call ing upon all railroad workers to join in asserting their power, and tempting them with the statement that 'the golden opportunity for which you have heen looking has arrived has been found by federal agents. Officials said they believed this unseen power had been pushing the strikers forward and now threatened to expand the walkout. months and months of l. w. w. cam paigning' to that end having been dis closed. Reports today told of inroads into the ranks of shopmen in many centerS and of unrest in all. They also uncovered the nature of l. W. w. prop aganda in process of distribution, some described as being "as dangerous as the communist literature" All of it advocated the lone big union" idea and urged the strikers and faint hearted" to secede from utilization with the four great railway brotherhoods.
 The American Federation of Labor was charac eriZed in these documents as 9s sng "57 varieties of unionism and none of them any good" One ar gument made against the four broth erhoods was that they do not stand together. and thereby brand them selves a.s 'scabs' by staying on the job when their fellows quit"
 The department moved further to- day in the direction of prosecution of strike leaders by requesting the ex- ecutives of the PeBEsylvania and New York Central roads te furnish it with the names of all men on strike and to designate those who apparently were directing it.
 In discussing this action, Mir. Palmer explained that conditions were not the same on all roads, and added that the influences behind the strike must be ascertained." He would not say what use would be made of these names, but other officials said they would fur nish valuable comparisons in depart ment records of known radicals. . w. w. and revolutionaries.
 It is understood that similar re quests might be sent to other railroad officials later although this action also awaited determination of the govern ment's policy.