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Show H - ' timothy healy's charges. Appearing before" tha railroad labor board on-Thursdaj'', Tim-H, Tim-H, j othy Healy, president of the Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen, charged that Attorney General Palmer was responsible for a de-spicable de-spicable propaganda against labor when he sent out warnings of threatened violence on May Day. Mr. Healy further maintained ' that less than 24 hours after the armistice a systematic campaign was started against the alleged radicals, of labor for the purpose of aiding the profiteers. Mr. Healy should readjust his glasses and got a -belter view of the situation. h "Why should the attorney general desire. t'o advance tnc inter-ests inter-ests of the profiteers when, by so doing, ho would bring to lrH office endless trouble and worry? The one big task facing the attorney general today is how to check the advancing price of everything.' I Now as to the campaign against the radical, the attorney gen- eral is wholly justified in seeing danger ahead. "While the war was on, the secret service of the United States, co-operating with the war intelligence department of the allied armies, was made aware of the fact that the Germans were laboring to" plant the doc.trines of the Belsheviki in the United States, in order to "bring "abut discontent in the ranks of labor and develop an open rupture between capital and labor. Later soviet Russia took up the propaganda j and, with a strong element of the I. "W. W. already sowing the- seeds ofdiscon-Hl ofdiscon-Hl tent in America, General Palmer had good cause to be disturbed and H' constantly apprehensive. , This country of ours cannot be made responsible to the best in I j mankind, if any big percentage of the people turn to the radicalism I of (Lenine or Trotzky, or to the tearing down policy ofrBen Hay-! Hay-! wood. The greater progress, in a country where the industrial life ; is as complex as in America, is to be attained by a 'gradual turning away from -the inequalities which give. to-us the5" extremes of society j Reforms must come by evolution and not revolution. ''History proves i that the pendulum of revolution' in industrial affairs swings too far j in one direction and then reacts to the other- extreme j H |