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Show EMPLOYEES OFFER COMPROMISE PLAN Indications the Eight-Hour Dispute Will Be Settled in Near Future. CLEVELAND, O., March 10. Settlement Settle-ment of the railroad eight-hour controversy, contro-versy, irrespective of whether the supreme su-preme court holds the Adamson law constitutional con-stitutional or unconstitutional, was forecast fore-cast in Cleveland today by action of a conference of brotherhood leaders. Announcement of the four unions' compromise plan to be threshed out at a meeting with railroad officials in New York next Thursday came simultaneously simultaneous-ly with the revelation that the brotherhood brother-hood chiefs had notified President Wilson Wil-son that a strike would not be permitted to embarrass the government in case the United States was drawn into war. A statement was given out signed by Warren S. Stone, grand chief of the engineers: L. E. Sheppard. acting president presi-dent of the conductors; W. 8. Carter, president of the firemen and enginemen, and W. G. Lee, president of the trainmen, train-men, announcing that a plan for settle- tnent of the controversy had been : drafted by the brotherhood heads and 1 submitted to and approved by the chairmen. chair-men. While the details of the settlement settle-ment plan were not divulged, it was stated that the union representatives would lay before railroad officials a compromise com-promise plan based on the employees' fight for an eight-hour day. |