Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-15
FARMERS ARE HIT
HARD BY STRIKE;
TRUCKISROTTING
1.-THE Atlanta Journal News Bureau
6e3 Riggs Building.
RY THEODORE. TILLER

begun to lombard their representa-
tives in congress with kilograms
protesting against the railroad strike
and the consequent embargo on
freight shipments which is destroy
ing many thousands of dollars
worth of perishable farm produce.
From Georgia up the Atlantic sea-
| board through Virginia, the protests
came. In speech, Senator Dial, OF
South Carolina, said truck farmers
Of his section are facing financial
| ruin.
| These local straws in the strike
wind merely indicate the seriousness
Of conditions as they exist today!
Official washington is known to be
pessimistic. Serious conferences are
| in progress at the department Of jus
! tice and the cabinet is called in spe-
| cial session for today for the first
| time since the president became i'll.
! The house and the executive de-
| partments all show concern in some
way over the progressive paralysis
Of the country's transportation. Two
anti-strike hills have already been
offered in the senate, with others to
follow
! At the department Of Justice, the
question is what to do and how far
| to go. The railroad strike has prog
ressed from local beginning and
there is difficulty about putting ones
| finger on the men primarily respon-
sible. -
Radical Elements Blamed
| The situation appears to be partly
psychological, yet officials know that
| under the surface there is dark
scheme of national disturbance and
that insiduously the spirit Of discon-
tent has been worked up by radical
outside Of organized labor, the Broth
erhoods and A. r. Of L., as it has
been dealt with here tofore.
| It may be authoritatively said that
| officials of the department of justice
| believe, and are in possession Of pro-
paganda indicating. that the present
] strike was not an overnight affair
| The seeds Of malcontent have been
adroit1y sown and many honest labor
union men are being 1nisled into dam
| gerous paths.
It may also be said with authority
| that officials Of the department OF
| Justice see in this strike much that
| reminds them of the communist
movement Of world revolution. These
officials are on the aleft to see how
far this spirit will get. Revolution
Is not feared III America, but to
certain point this strike movement
has followed the communistic ideas
to wit: First-A local strike grow
ing into a bigger strike; then the big
gen strike growing into a mass
strike; then the mass strike growing
into national revolution, and the
latter becoming world revolution
washington May Walk
1t is perfectly apparent that the
local strikes have widened until
transportation of the entire country
is affected. The strike virus IS
spreading so that even the employees
of the Potomac Electric Power COM
pany and the washington Railway
/ and Electric company have threaten
ed a walkout at midnight wednesday
night. Unless their wage demands are
met, one Of the principal streets cal
lines of the national capital and Its
only electric light and power COM
pany will virtually shut down within
a few hours. This would not only
force Washington and congress tc
walk. but would throw Indebtedness
. I,0-
dustrial plants, and many govern
ment buildings.
Going back to congestion u
FREIGHT and the embargo on frelgH'
shipments both into and out OF
Washington. Senator Dial pictures
the results that may come to every
section Of the country unless thS
strike is quickly broken. Souther1
truck farmers, he showed, are cut Oil
from the eastern markets and theil
produce is decaying at their depots.
Senator Dial read kilograms from
Beaufort, S. c., saying that there
were already immense losses" anG
that 1--WE are facing financial ruin.
Would Repeal Adamson Act
: The real beginning of class legls
lation and trucking to labor organ
izations, Senator Dial indicated, was
| the massage of the Adamson act.
| Senator Dial said the evil effects
! CT the Adamson eight-hour law WouIC
| be felt for q generation longer. ne
| expressed regret that anti-str1ke leg
islation had not been included Ill tEt
Cummins-Esch railroad bill.
| Anti-Strike Bill
Senator Edge, of New Jersey. has
introduced Il drastic ant1-Strlke DILL
One provision would make 1t manda-
tory upon the attorney general tc
! apply for injunctions against per-
sons agreeing or conspiring to inter
fere with transportation. Such ac-
ton is now optional with the attor-
ney general. The bill makes it a
penal offense for any person to
agree, combine or conspire to him
der interstate transportation or tC
aid, abet, counsel, command or IN
= duce any person to quit employment
when such action contributes to in
reference with commerce.
Officials believe that the /. W. W.
organization has had much to do with
fomenting the present trouble. There
is In official hands a copy of an lad
dress to railroad workers. ctrcu!at-
ed by the 1. w. w. publishing bu-
tation workers to unite in one big
union, and denouncing the big
-Four" brotherhoods and the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor as being no
longer alert to the needs of the
working men. They are as much out
Of date, says this address" as an
ox-cart would be against an auto
mobile.
That thousands Of workers are be-
ing led unknowingly into the com
} ment Is known to be believed in of"
sficia1 circles,