Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — NEW RED PLEA BARED [ARTICLE]

NEW RED PLEA BARED

LATEST DOCUMENT APPEALS TO THE RAILWAY SHOPMEN. , • Further Evidence Linking I. W. W. With Strike Made Public by Department of Justice. Washington, April 16. —The department of justice made public more documents seized from I. W. W. agitators and copies of appeals by that organization to the shopmen to “throw down the labor politicians," who, the hppeal said, are now heading the labor unions. Appealing to the shopmen directly, one of the documents said : “The yardmen and the road workers have blazed the trail and we must now open our eyes and see the truth. We, the shopmen, are dancing with the same skeletal of starvation that is haunting the transportation men. Now is the time for all of us to join the fight. Never before have we had the opportunity to gain our ends that now faces us.” Secretary Baker had a brief conference with Attorney General Palmer, but department of justice officials said the railroad strike was not discussed. Reports from agents of the department of justice that William Z. Foster, a leader In the steel strike; Carl Pierson and other radical agitators had been positively identified as moving spirits in the country-wide unrest among trainmen, were expected to go far toward enlightening the rank and file of strikers as to the true meaning of the movement.