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Show WILSON SUSTAINS RAILROAD BOARD M i JNIONS" REQUEST FOR AN INVESTIGATION INVES-TIGATION OF TH6 WAGE DISPUTE IS DENIED. Sonfldenco Expressed by the President That All Questions Dealing With Labor and Management Might Do Left to Commission. Washington. President Wilson hat refused tlie request of railroad labor union representatives that ho Invostl goto railroad executives' claims before be-fore the railroad labor board, that ,thc carriers must adjust wifges or face bankruptcy. Ho nlso declined to submit sub-mit tho mntter to congress. Confidence wns expressed by the president that all questions dealing wjth railroad labor and .management might bo left safely lo 'tho railroad labor board nnd tho Interstate commerce com-merce commission. Ho accordingly In-fonncd In-fonncd the labor nnd railroad representatives repre-sentatives that ho wns submlttlna copies of telegrams received from them to theso bodies. ' ' Tho reply of tho president, on Bun-day, Bun-day, to two telegrams sent by tho railway rail-way labor unions and to ono telegram from tho Association of Hallway 13r-ccutlvcs 13r-ccutlvcs Is understood to havo been based on recommendations of, Secretary Secre-tary I'nyne, who still nctrf'ns'dfrccLDr general of tho railroad administration. |