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Show DILL SETS AT REST REPORTS OF PEACE Declares Men Who Will Betray Trusts Not Fit to Hold Positions. NEW YORK, Aug. 0. James J. Hill sets at rest today the reports said to havo been spread among the striking telegraphers tele-graphers of the Great Ncrthcrn and Northern Pacific roads that he would Interveno In their behalf In the contention conten-tion with tho operating officers of tho road. Mr. Hill said, In regard to tho case of the strikers, that the men had been dismissed because they would not obey orders. Plotters Arc Unworthy. "Men." contlnuejl Mr. Hill, "who will plot to embroil a railroad and Its employees em-ployees Just at the beginning of a season, when they know a heavy movement of traffic Is expected, as at present with the approach of crop movements, do not deserve de-serve to be on the iayrolls of any road. Thoy aro positions of trust, and the plotters are not fit to hold them. I will see to It that any of those who have been active In bringing about this strlko will never again enter the employ of the road." |