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Show IJ r reports im ' Large Number From U. S. I Agents at Strike Centers Sent to Attorney General. BOARD TO BE CALLED IN WITHOUT DELAY I. W. W. Propaganda Tells All j Railroad Workers "Golden Opportunity Arrived." j WASHINGTON, April 13. Evidence of the activity of Industrial Workers J oC the World inciting and maintain- i ing the unauthorized railway strike j continues to accumulate at the depart- 4, ment of justice and offcials admitted jj tonight that they saw signs of an at " t tempt to expand the railroad strike into "one phase of a -world revolution." Reports from field agents of the department de-partment were not as yot complete enough en-ough to permit determination of thi government's course -in dealing with the situation. Attorney General Palmer Palm-er said no announcement a3 to the government's gov-ernment's plan was to be expected before be-fore tomorrow at the earliest. 1 Cabinet is Called. I l President Wilson today issued n call I for his cabinet to meet Wednesday V , morning. It will be the first session I I of Mr. Wilson's official advisers since bis western speaking tour in the course of which-he was taken ill, and i the strike situation wa3 understood to n ' Jinvrt nrnmntoil tlip m11 for tho mept- II B ing. In some quarters, it was thought I it an announcement as to the goverp- 11 nont's course would follow the cabi- 1 net meeting. The president also sent to the senate ! today the nominations of the nine men representing employers, .employes and t the public whom he has selected to ) compose the labor board provided un-dn un-dn the transportation act to deal with mil way labor disputes I (a The men seleoted were: Represent- I I ing the public, Georgo W. Hangar, I 1 Washington, D. C; Henry Hunt, Cin- I U cinnati; R. M. Barton, Tennessee. I H Representing the railroad corpora- I Hons: Horace Baker, J. H. Elliott and I J' William L. Clark. I m I Representing tho employes: Albert I 3 PnillSps, A. 0. Wharton and J. J. For- I 1 1 roster. I y The nominations were immedkUely I h J l of erred to the interstate commerce- I ) commission which is expected to take I ! action on them promptly. I u Board to Be Promptly Called. I r The board will be called by the pres- I Idont without delay and waa expected I ' to meet In Washington where existing 1 gcvernment machinery for the hand- 1 I ling of wage matters is at its disposal mfj and would permit It .to get into action promptly to deal with the strike situ- at ion. HI Mr. Palmer, when he goes to the cab- HB inet meeting, will have available a very large number of reports from his ag- H ents at strike centers which, are HH known to deal specifically with th j relation of the I. W. W. to the strike N , movement He will be able to show I I tho president and the cabinet that 1 ' through the agency of the I. W. W. re- 1 (; lationship has been established be- 1 t twecn the strikers newly formed or- I i genir.alion the Railway Workers' Un- 1 ; Ion and the "one big union" as the 1 Canadian I. W. W. is known. He will I B nlso be able to disclose through offi- I j cial reports that John Grunau, head I ' of the Chicago Yardmen's association, 1 ' the members of which were the first I '!, in the country to quit their posts, has I J been supplanted by an active member Li:' of the I. W. W. I. Federal Agents Discover 1. W. W. H jj Propaganda. 1; Propaganda of I. W. W. origin call-lug call-lug upon all railroad workers to join H m asserting their power and tempting H j them with the statement that "the I J fiblden opportunity for which you have I Ueen looking has arrived," has been I C6und by federal agents. Officials said I Ct-ey believed this unseen power had H bjabn pushing the strikers forward and I oow threatened to expand the walkout I 'nonths and months of I. W. W. cam- I reigning" to that end having been dis- I ojosed. Reports today told of Inroads I ijr.to the ranks of shopmen in many Renters and of unrest in all. They also I uncovered the nature of I. W. W. prop- I pganda In process of distribution, somo I described as being "as dangerous as I Hie. communist literature." All ol It ; Advocated the "one big union" Idea I . jTnd urged the strikers and "faint- : fvearted" to secede from affiliation I J j S:h the four great railway brother- H Roods. I I T. no |