Show President nt Asks Th That t a a at t Special Commission Be Named to Pass orthe or on the Wage Increases Increase WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Aug b L Lv v President Wilson Nilson today asked congress to create a special investigation commission t to t pass pass upon the wage increases asked by bythe bythe bythe the railway and other railway railway railway rail rail- way The president forwarded to Senator Cummins and Representative Esch chairmen respectively of the house and senate interstate commerce committees committees com com- the proposal made originally by Director General Hines and asked that provision be made for representation representation representation tation of both labor and the public on the body WAGES AND RATES The president asked congress to stipulate In its legislation that if wage increases are allowed under its award it should be mandatory on von the rate ratemaking ratemaking ratemaking making authority to increase railroad rates enough to meet the advances Director General Hines informed the president that inasmuch as the In Increases Increases increases In- In creases being asked by all classes o of railroad workers aggregated I a year ear he hoped something might I be done to reduce the cost of living as asan asan I an alternative because he doubted I I that his powers were sufficient to Increase In Increase increase in- in i I crease rates enough to meet the vast I sum WORKING CONDITIONS Mr Hines limes also asked that the railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road administration be allowed to continue continue continue con con- to handle questions of rules and working conditions saying these could not be satisfactorily separated from the current handling o of railroad operations opera opera- opera operations President Wilson wrote the committee commit commit- tee chairman that he concurred In the view or Mr Hines that the legislation undertaken should authorize the body thus set up to o make its findings with regard to wage increases retroactive to the 1st of August 1919 at any rate to the extent that the tribunal may re regard regard regard re- re gard reasonable and proper in order to give real relief to the concerned concerned con con- |