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Show WESTERN LINES JOIN IN PLAN Railroads Inaugurate Wage Cut Move-ment Move-ment Effecting Unskilled Men. Chicago. Virtually all of the larger western railroads on Frldny had swung Into lino In" tho policy stnrted n few days ago by several eastern railroads of taking steps to bring iibout reductions reduc-tions In tho wartime wngo scale of unskilled un-skilled employees. Tho reductions will bo urged, railroad rail-road officials said, to keep tho roads out of bankruptcy nnd ennblo them eventually to reduce traffic rates, which now wero said to bo "higher than tho public can bear." Various railroad presidents declnred tho roads wero existing entirely on credit. At tlio snme time camo statements from officials of tho Association of Knllway Executives that lower rates of pay for skilled workers probablj would ho sought after tho wages for unskilled men had been settled. |