AMERICAN LABOR

Evening Star, Issue 17328, 16 April 1920, Page 4

AMERICAN LABOR

BIG RAILWAY STRSKE.

BOLSHEVISM BLAMED.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.

WASHINGTON', April 14. Hundreds of civilians are being drilled to. handle tho food trains to supply the cities.

Mr Sanderson (manager of tho Baldwin Locomotive Works) and Mr J. P. Mprgan, jun., arc amongst the prominent men who are assisting to keep the trains moving, the finpt-named as a driver and Mr Morgan as a fireman. •

A dozen trains are marooned in the -Califorian desert.

Heuter's Tekgrams.

Evidence received by the State Department indicates that the Russian Communists are financing the strike of tho American railway brotherhoods.

Tho Attorney-General reported to the Department of Justice that he had information shewing that Lenin's Russian Communist International is undertaking to use the railroad strike as a vehicle for the creation of a mass strike- in the United States. The information before the Cabinet disclosed the fact that the Communist Party are financing and otherwise aiding the strike through the agency of the Independent Workers of the World. The evidence justified, tho statement that the-aim is a iusbs strike, to be followed by a revolution.

THE REAL REASON: HIGH COST OF LIVING. NEW YORK, April 14. (Received April 16, at 9 a.m.) Mr . Samuel Gompers (president of the Federation of Labyr), in a statement at Cleveland, Ohio, said the conditions of the workers in the United States were worse financially than before the war. It was no wonder, therefore, that they wore becoming impatient and were disregarding the discipline usually practised by labor unions.