Show I DEMANDS PREPOSTEROUS So Say the Officials of the Trainmens Demand for an Increase St Paul Jan 7It became apparent today that unless the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen recede from two points the settlement of the wage controversy con-troversy cannot be reached without friction It became public today for the l first time that they demand not only r a 20 per cent fiat increase In pay but l the addition of an absolute ruler rule-r guaranteeing double pay for handling f freight trains of more than thirty cars I or trains hauled by more than one en pine The railway officials uniformly tr sycak l > of this demand as preposterous The Great Northern sent a communication f communi-cation to Us committee asking if a t + < < smaller Increase than 20 per cent would I be received for consideration The reply was that no proposition for less than I the full amount could be considered Ep under the instructions of the chiefs of p r l the order This explains why no progress L pro-gress had been made toward a settlement I settle-ment A meeting will be held In Chicago p Chi-cago tomorrow night by the railway officials No two railroads centering In St Paul are In exactly the ame position po-sition There can therefore be no uniform f uni-form Increase Santa Fe Says 3STo t I Topekn < Kan Jan 7The committee representing the conductors and brakemen brake-men of the entire Santa Fc system inhere 1ctslon in-here were today notified that their demand for a 20 per cent wage increase was out of the question The officials declared that such a raise was simply Impossible |