Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-04-14
RAIL EMPLOYEES
WALKOUT BACKED
BY |. ". ". IS
/ PALMER s CLAIM
Agents at Strike CenterS
Have Gathered Evidence
Linking Reds With Pres
ent Trouble on Railways.
MEETING OF CABINET
is CALLED FOR TODAY
Attorney General Will Place
His Evidence Before Pres
ident and Members of
His Official Family.


Washington, April Evidence
of the activity of Industrial Work
ers of the World toward melting
and maintaining unauthorized rail-
way strike continue to accumulate
at the department of justice AMI
officials admitted tonight that
they saw signs of an attempt to
expand the railroad strikA into
zone phase of a world revolution
Reports from field agents of the
department were not as yet COM
plete enough to permit determine
ton of the governments course III
dealing with the situation. Attor-
Eey General Palmer said no an
nouncement as to the government
plan was to be expected before to-
morrow at the earliest
President Wilson today issued a
call for his cabinet to meet tomor-
row morning. 1t will be the first
session of Mr.. Wilson'S official ad-
visers since his western speaking
tour in the course of which he was
taken i'll, and the strike situation
was understood to have prompted
the call for the meeting. In some
quarters ~ Was tnOuShI an Nii
nouncement as to the governments
course would follow the cabinet
meeting.
Names labor Board.
The PRESIDENT also At C. the
seadte toasy the fIon1lntttiosr- ~tht5
nine men representing employers
employees and the public whom he
has selected to compose the labor
board provided under the trans
portation act to deal with railroad
labor disputes.
The men selected were
Representing the public: George
w. Hangar, Washington, d. C.;
Henry Hunt, Cincinnati; R. M.
Barton, Tennessee.
Representing the railroad corpo-
rations: Horace Baker, ]. II. Eli
oft and William L. Park.
Representing the employees, AL
bert Phillips, A. o, Wharton and
]. j. Forester.
The nominations were immedi-
ately referred to the interstate
commerce committee, which is ex-
pected to take action on them to-
morrow.
Board to Meet Promptly.
The board will be called by the
president without delay and was
expected to meet in Washington
where existing government machin-
cry for the handling of wage mat
ters is at it's disposal and would
permit it to get, into action
promptly to deal with the strike
situation.
Mr.. Palmer, when he goes to
the cabinet meeting tomorrow, will
have available very large number
of reports from his agents at strike
centers which are known to deal
specifically with the relation OF
the l. w. W. to the strike move
ment He will be able to show the
president and the cabinet that
through the agency of the |. w.
w relationship has been estab-
lished between the strikers newly |
formed organization-the Railway |
Workers Union-and the zone big |
union" as the Canadian /. w. w.
is known. He will also be able to
disclose through official reports
that John Grunau, head of the Chi
cago yardmen's association the |
members of which were the first in |
the country to quit their posts.
will be supplanted by an active |
member of the |. w. w.
Shopmen's Ranks Wayering.
Propaganda of /. w. w. origin |
calling upon all railroad workers
to join in asserting their power
and tempting them with the state |
ment that "the golden opportunity
for which you have been 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 campaigning" to that end
having been disclosed. Reports to-