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Show 1 WILSON GALLS I LABOR BOARD I TOfGIZE Issues Demand as Soon as Word of Senate's Action Is Learned. H PALMER BELIEVES SITUATION IMPROVED Department Officials Canvass- ing Lists and Card-Indexing Names of All Radicals. WASHINGTON. April 16 Members Hl of the railway labor board whose noni- inations were confirmed today by the senate, were called, tonight by Presl dcnt Wilson to meet tomorrow and or-Hl or-Hl grinlze. Sonic of them are already In the city and provision has been made for their assembly at the headquarters of the railway administration. The president's call was issued as rnnn r5 wnvrl n'f llio rnntrs action . reached hini. Administration officials have felt that the board would prove an effective agency toward ending th? "outlaw" strike of railway men. The senate apparently shared this f l iew While sharp criticism of some of the nominations Is known to have i; been expressed again today, final ac- Hon was taken in an unusually brief ft,1 time", considering the importance of IT this new government agency and of the Immediate task that faces it. J$ - The action of the senate in confirm Ing the members cf the labor, board will permit an early lest of the theory yfevjy--" that the board's consideration of rail-1 jT, road labor's wage demands would case 'f ', the strike situation and work general- ',: 1? t'o alleviate unrest in that c'ass of i workers. . . Strike Conditions Believed Improving. Attorney General Palmer said today j , ' he believed that the chaotic condition created by the walkout was improving j v but he declared that the department I of justice was not relaxing Its efforts in any direction. United Slates dls- iricl attorneys in every strike area j have made local arrests of agitators ! and' strikers, but these, it was said, ! were cases where specific law viola- j tions occurred. Mr. Palmer declared such matters were not for "headquarters' "headquar-ters' consideration," reiterating that the government expected the district i attorneys to act on their own initiative with respect to prosecution of violators; of laws. Canvassing List of Strikers. ' Department officials have practically practical-ly decided to canvass the lists of all j strikers and was expected, to ask officials of-ficials of all railroad lines affected by the strike to furnish tbc same Information Infor-mation as was reqwsted of the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania and New York Central lines j Tuesday. Assistant Attorney General G&r.van said he, expected these lists of 'names to divulge the identity of the "borers from within" in the recognized labor organizations. ii Radicals Are Card-lndexcd. The department has card-indexed jrjjy j Ihe records, of more than sixty thous- Ijf'., : arid radicals and the names of strike K , leaders and agitators will be traced M through these records in an effort to ft establish connection with previous C activities. Mr. Garvan said n stafi of n clerks already had begun the work of rf - eliminating the "misled from the agi- ' p . talors" through the process of coni- tpprison of records. This work will go on, even though the strike collapses t completely, he said. f oo |