IS AMAZED IT PALP'S TALK WASHINGTON April 16. Attorne. General Palmer's conclusions that the "outlaw" railway striko was traceable to activities of radicals and revolutionists revolution-ists was sharply challenged tonight is a statement Issued by Frank Morrison, Morri-son, secretary of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor. An independent investigation inves-tigation of strike cauRes by the railway rail-way executives, the statement said, re-ivealed re-ivealed "just a plain, ordinary strike for more pay." j "If there were enough revolutionary I power in the United States to create I such an outbreak as this," Mr. Morrison Morri-son said, "the condition would be ser-ious, ser-ious, indeed, But there is no sucr power. Tho absolute failure of the attorney at-torney general to grasp the true situation sit-uation is amazing." The department of justice had no additional announcements fo make tonight to-night to support its conclusions. Thei only development of the day affecting the government's connection with tho i strike situation was the organizatlor ' meeting ot tho railway labor board, i J v hlch met with seven of its nine mem-1 bcrs present, elected officers and de i Itennincd to take up, beginning to- j morrow, the whole question of railway) iv ugea at the point vhere the bi-partisan discussion between men and em ployers dropped it some days ago, un ablo to reach conclusions. ' Tactico of Strikers Wrong. I While tactics of the railroad strik-' ers were wrong and disavowed by or ' ganized labor, Mr. Morrison's state- j ment said, this should not prevent an ' "honest" understanding of the facts. His own viewpoint as to causer of tho 'strike, he added, was based on reports fathered by employers' representatives net in sympathy with the strikers. "I point to these rejorts and the evidence evi-dence -they contain as an evidence of governmental stupidity in dea'ing with ! the situation," Mr. Morrison continued I "While the-government, through the 1 attorney general, is contemplating re-1 pression and punishment, treating th j strike as a crime, the real omployers Iknow that the strike is an outbreak j against economic conditions. ! Plain Strike For More Pay. 1 "After rcaii'ng tne digest of these ro-I ro-I ports, tho conclusion is evident that I whatever the merits of the strike, it is I chiefly just a plain ordinary strike for j more pay." ! New York and New England inves Itigators reported they had found strike I sentiment "strongest among the Intel lligent and conservative men." Mr Morrison said. Many of the strikers j have served for long periods ou one . I railway, he added, and never before! (were known as agitators. Other ob-! j servers found "no virus or disloyalty or revolution in the ranks of the dis-! affected workers except the usual ev- idtnee of extremists who are 'riding jibe strike as some time happens to i he the case." I Not Under Revolutionary Direction, j Mr. Morrison declared the railroad , j executives were "fully informed" as I I to the character of the striko and ''they know the outbreak is not under: rr volutlonary direction." ; According to a data gathered by the' j omployers from their representativer ' ;in close touch with the strikers I j throughout the country, the statement! i added, "the yardmen's walkout is noi of a revolutionary character or orig 'in. , "The fifteen men who made the re- j , port on v. hich this conclusion is based art in close touch with these men and are in their confidence. The association associa-tion which gathered the reports comes n intimate official contact with rail-way rail-way matters and is national in scope ; It is not at all in sympathy with the j strikers or their point of view.- Radical Element Not in Evidence ; "A digest of these reports shows that jiu all localities the reasons advanced, I by the strikers for their action are' Istartlngly alike. "Every one of our in-j in-j vestigators,' the digest says, 'is firm-! jlv convinced that so far as his territory ter-ritory Is concerned the strike is all-i (American and entirely devoid of bol-shevism, bol-shevism, or I. W. W.'Ism, and Act up , to the end of last week the radical jelement was not m evidence at all. " j