Show 1 Postponed for n Week j ITmnUNE SPECIAL I Denver Colo Feb 28Tho discus Blon of the question or Increase of wages between the Rio Grande officiate nnrt the engineers and firemen has been I postponed for a week General Super intendent Coughlin of the Rio Grande I system met a joint committee of the engineers and firemen of the road at I his office today when tho wage ques I tion was presented AB Mr Coughlln was about to depart upon a trip over J the rood he 1 asked the men to waIL for I I a reply until his return The engineers onO firemen did not present their case I In the form of an arbitrary demand They set forth Jn I detail their reasons II I I II J I for asking an Increase mating the fact of the greatly Increased traffic over the road the use of doubleheaders and longer trains the strain or hanger hours on the road etc They presented schedules showing the present scale of wages and what they considered a fair increase |