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Show IHI Jt- A .SU -PL A A n j jl. jsu a. I nil IIH PRESIDENT UNO ME cn I Following Meeting Palmer j j Calls His Assistants to an ' Early Conference H WILSON TELEGRAPHS ' lH MEMBERS OF BOARD j Dr. Grayson Says Meeting I ! Was Good Thing for Execu- j tive's General Condition -ll WASHINGTON, April 14.4' x) ' Evidence obtained by the ' department of justice was iH said today to show that the 'UH Russian communist interna- ' jll tionale is undertaking to use . i the railroad strike as the vehi- '. vjt cle for the creation of a mass ' - strike in the United States. lH Reports from federal agents " , , were said to have disclosed , jH that the communist party was I ll financing and otherwise aid- IjH ing the strike through the tlH Workers of the World. , Evidence which the depart- j ment has received was vde- , , j clared to justify the state. - M ment that the strike was to be ; ll merely a step in the well ' fH known plan of the communist.. ljl group and that the end and . j llH aim was a mass strike to be Tol . EH lowed by a revolution. . JH Washington. April u. Presjr fl dent Wilson-and his cabirfefdiscus'sed ' f'l the railroad strike for more than an 1 hour today and apparently reached !H sdme conclusion, but there was no in- H timation as to its nature. H Attorney General Palmer made this H statement as he left the White House: "It is fair to conclude that the strike H situation was discussed, but I am not , prepared lo say what conclusions were ' reached. Other members of the cabinet would IJ make no statement, referring Inquirers to the attorney general. Some inti-mated, inti-mated, however, that definite decision had been made one way or another as H to government intervention. H Palmer Gets Busy. Mr. Palmer went direct from the White House to this office and mime-diatciy mime-diatciy summoned for a conference his assistants who have been keeping in close touch with the strike situation. Soon after the cabinet meeting the J president telegraphed the members of the newly named railroad labor board IH asking them to come to Washington I and be prepared to function as soon H as thoir nominations had been con- jBH firmed by the senate. The immediate summoning of the board was one of the matters decided 9 upon at the cabinet meeting, it was learned. IH The president had been informea that Senator Cummins, chairman of the senate interstate commerce con" IH mittce, had prepared a resolution peiT-mitting peiT-mitting the board to nieet here ins tea tl of Chicago and the president's action was in anticipation of the adoption ol this resolution. President Better. Rear Admiral Grayson, the pros I-dent's I-dent's physician, said the president had enjoyed meeting with his advisers. ( "It did, Jiim good," declared Dr. Grayson, adding that meeting people was good for Mr. Wilson. Cabinet officers declared that the president had been in excellent humor jH and had laughed and joked with them. They expect that meetings with the ,H cabinet will be held weekly in the fu- , Shortly after convening at noon to" . day the senate, at the request of Serf.' f alor Lodge, of MassacliuseTts, Hepublf- 1 can leader, went into executive scs- r sion to consider the nominations to t Its 8 railroad labor board submitted yestef- , day by the president. . H Jury to Investigate. - NEW ORLEANS, La.. April 1-1 Fed- 1 I 'H oral Judge Foster today called a spo- if clal session of the federal grand jury I to consider the ases of eight "ou law" strike leaders arrested last night ' by federal agents on charges of inter-fering inter-fering with interstate commerce, vio-lating vio-lating the Lever act and interfering with the mails. Judge Foster an-nounced an-nounced tho grand jury men would bo 5 instructed to investigate every possi- oie pnasc ot tne striKe nere. . Will Move Food. i f JERSEY CITY, N. J., April 14. An- l swering an appeal by Health Commis- sioner Copeland of New York, 2000 strikers from all railroads terminating I 9 on the New Jersey shore of the Hud- ' IH son river, agreed at a meeting here I today to cooperate in moving food- 9 stuffs into New York, according to an- 9 nouncement after adjournment. |
