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Show RAILROAD MANAGER EXPLAINS DEMANDS Asserts Tliat Under Proposed Scale ! Some Engineers "Would Receive I $3-1.96 a Day. CHICAGO. Feb. 10. How the western engineers and firemen wnscs, being arbitrated arbi-trated here, would run into a bsuni figures fig-ures was pointed out at the arbitration proceedings today by A. W. Trenholrn, general manager of the Chicago. St. Paul, M Innea polls - O ma ha ra 1 1 road . In hi x figures Mr. Trenbolm considered the new rates of pav requested and the demands for automatic release, pn.v for preparatory prepara-tory time, initial and final terminal delay and ail elements Involved in the demands He first cited a run of six trains between be-tween Eluiira and Riverside, Inwn on the Chicago. Rn k Island & Pa rifle, where by the application of all the rules and rates demanded an engineer now earning ?fi '2 for eight hours work would receive ?hV and his fireman $2. Another Ru'h Island crew, running between Canu-ro'u Junction. Mo., and Leavenworth. Man , would receive $.'M.9fl a dav for the enei-ncr enei-ncr and ?2'J.S for the tireinnn, th witness wit-ness said. He cited several othf r Instances In-stances of similar popcild" hltrh pay, including in-cluding one on the Denver & ' Rio Grande, where the. eniuurr-r of a "helper' "help-er' en cine running up Tennessee pass would receive 521. SO. One of Ihe demands of the men is that In cases where an encrlne makes soverat short trips n day as part of a d:ivs work they be pa hi a full dav for rach trip |