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Show ' KSIP011 : FIFTEEN -BAYS :MF011MMIlHFFOKfS Senator nanna, -at Head cf Civic Federation, Will Endeavor to Bring . About Settlement of Union Pacific Troubles. NEW YORK. May . 11. Ralph M. Easley," secretary of the Civic Federation, Federa-tion, announced that he had received a telegram that the Southern Pacific threatened strike . had been postponed fifteen days to give time for a settlement. settle-ment. The boiler makers' on the Southern' Pacific were to have gone on strike today to-day out of sympathy with the striking Union Pacific machinists who have been out" for about six months. Senator Hanna, acting for the Civic Federation asked that this sympathetic strike be postponed, pending efforts of the Federation Fed-eration to bring about a settlement. Earlier reports say that the strikers had informed Senator Tanna that his request came too late, but Mr. Easley said that these reports were unfounded and that the assurance had been received re-ceived that a delay of fifteen days had r been granted. The executive committee commit-tee of the National Civic Federation meets In this city on Wednesday and the question of reaching a bettlement in the Union Pacific matter will come up. OGDEU MEN ORDERED TO CONTINUE AT WORK EOS FIFTEEN; DAYS MORE. ... OGDEN. Utah, May 1L The secretary secre-tary j of the local Boiler-Makers' union this morning received a telegram from John MacNeil. head of the union at Kansas City, instructing the men In the Southern Pacific shops to remain at' work for the next fifteen days. The telegram states that a meeting has been arranged with Harriman and Burt aiming at a settlement of the Union-Pacific strlke,Ihlajneetlng. is to be held next week. . The men affected by the order in Og-den Og-den number fifty boiler-makers and helpers and they had made all arrangements ar-rangements to go out at noon today when the message was received.' |