Show SAY BROTHERHOOD PERSECUTES NEGRO CHICAGO Jan JID 27 Charges i. Charges that tho the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen aud and is s trying to deprive negro firemen of their jobs were made before the board of arbitration in tho Western railroad wage hearing here today tod The subject came up in in consi consideration of the question whether the firemen of the Yazoo 8 Mississippi lis i sippi pi Valley railroad a subsidiary of tho the Illinois Central are party part to tho arbitration In tho the course courso of the debate W. W S. S Carter of counsel for the admitted ad nd that these theo firemen mostly negroes were not directly represented when a agreement to arbitrate was made but that since since then a majority of them bad had requested that they be lie represented James M. M attorney for the railroads asserted that Carter Cartor wanted the tho negro firemen included so that white men wen mi might ht displace them in their positions |