Show RAILROAD MEN WILL JILL ASK FOR HIGHER WAGES Workers T Do Not Intend to Strike Will ill Make l Requests Re Re- quests Not Demands OHIO COAL Fj FAMINE FAi LAID TO GARFIELD Fuel Controller Upsets the IC Utilities States State's System Inspector Charges Washington ton Jm 5 III Higher her wages ag 9 Win Ut 10 ho a asked ked of oC the administration admin admin- lon soon oon h by nil nfl classes of organized railroad It Tt was learned toda today that thai that many pending wage wabe disputes will be tr transferred to the government o from railway ecu p. t l boards and In r ca- ca cases caes es s ne new demands will be bo formulated for or presentation pres pres- on to Director General Gene McAdoo doo who vho probably will deal with them through h Investigating In boa boards reI Strikes arc re not contemplated ont ll b by any organization r It Is said sahl and wa wage e flues flues- will not bo bl put up to the tho director tor general a RI as demands Railroad labor labor la- la bor leaders will point out the tho of or wage Increases to 0 keep p em- em s from rom being attracted to other 1 industries tries rive Five Union Make U Up to tho present tho the only general d demands m for or wa wage c Increases con dered d- d cred ered erel b by Director General McAdoo 1 doo are ho e presented h by the four railway Brotherhoods and the swItchmen's switchmen s u n Ion The Tho director general announced to tonight tonight tonight to- to night that he expected to name short- short ily 13 railroad directors for certain sections sections sec sec- of or the country Tho The Senate and House Interstate commerce committees to today ay continued r their hearings hearing on the railroad bill Be Before Defore De- De fore the House committee Interstate Commerce Commerce Commissioner Anderson Anderon re- re iterated that It seemed Impracticable lo loto for Cor termination ter ter- to change the bill to provide pro of or government control as a time after the war He lie ad- ad d leaving the question of or return of or the roads to private control to fu futura future ru- ru ture turo determination b by Congress I Wont not Later Valuation Representative Moore of or Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- v vania asked the committee to amend the bill to provide specifically for or control of or canal transPortation transportation trans trans- facilities Members of or tho the United States compensation committee advocated that railroad men should hould be regarded as government go em- em es nat committee commit commit- Testifying before beCore the S Senate tee tee- tee George M. M I Shriver vice president of the Baltimore Ohio said ald that the average return on Investment of oC the thirty eight principal eastern systems st ms for or the three three- year three ear average a suggested by tho the President was 5 4 per cent He Tie argued that tho the eastern railroads s had added to the property inVestment In- In Vestment In the last half hall of or 1917 1317 and that compensation should be based figures of ot December 1917 rather TI than June 1917 IK is I Investigation of ot the coal shortage b by Jie je Senate manufactures committee turned today to conditions In Ohio Missouri and the national capital f Suffering and a 11 general Jeneral dl disruption of the coal business In Ohio was charged directly to Fuel Administrator Garn Garfield ld his priority orders resulting In carrying more coal to lake ports than 1 vessels could handle b by James B. B Duan Ducan Dugan Du- Du can gan an chief t Inspector of oC tho the public utilities utilities ties commission of Ohio Ho lie said that Ohio officials feared trouble In getting coal bal this winter because of great In Increase Increase In- In crease in consumption and lack Inck of oC Transportation facilities and last summer sum sum- f mer iner er Inaugurated Inaus a system of oC supplying tho the small consumer The system was wor working out as expected he d ared until It was wae superseded by the state et administration MIners Miner J Lazy In lit C Charge Frank W. W McAllister attorney general general general gen gen- eral of Missouri told the committee of or Information obtained In an Investigation tion tron of coal conditions In his state to whether hether state trust anti lita against as coal operators operator were warl war war- l ranted anted It had been developed he said liat production this year ear va wan waH reduced a about out 30 per cent and It was caused by many man miners working only four Cour days 6 a week a as the they could earn carn as much nuch In four days das now as UI the they for- for lid did In six and b by shortage of or cars at mines Prices Price had doubled and In n some cases trebled he be testified Mr Mr McAllister said he hp thought only government control of the mines would solve the tho problem |