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Show LEE DECLARES HE CAI FUB PROOF Offers to File Statements of j Trainmen Regarding Way Railroads Are Operated. i i CLEVELAND. Feb. 7. President YV. G. Lee of the Erotherhooi of 1' ail road ; Trainmen, in reply to certain railroad i operating officials who ch;i!-nrer( Mate- ' merits marie by Mr. Lee to the wa-e om- ' mission m U'arhln-tun Tue Jay, to the effect t hat thn kov. rn mem was not -I'.nc the loval t-upport of certain rail- ' road managements, today issued the fol- , lowing stat.-ment : ; "We ptanri ready to file with the direr- ' tor peneral of railroad.-, when requested by him. numerous tr at enients oi nm- ployees in train, fnslne an1 yard service to S Jhstant i;ile Our expr .-sf d h.-ll-f to the commission that . ertain orerat'ns officials were endeavoring to make government gov-ernment ore-ration a failure inU-ad of a i-'je-ee?" Mr. Lee wowld make no reply to a t-lp-pram pent him in hhalf of th: Associated Asso-ciated Banks of Nw York, rhaiien.; ino; him to pnn'lur-e proof of his r- port'-rl assertion as-sertion that Vrir banks in that city were behind the effort to delay the elht-hour law and make covprnmcnt operation of the railroads a failure. |