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Show SHOPMEN ASKED TO REMAJJT WORK Director McAdoo Promises to Take Up Grievances at Once. WASHINGTON, May 29. Upon receiving re-ceiving word today that mechanics and shopmen of the Rock Island and other railroads were threatening a strike next Monday for higher wages than Director General MeAdoo's recent order authorized, author-ized, the railroad administration asked tlie men by telegraph to remain at work, and announced that the hew board on railroad wages and - working conditions would take up the machinists' application next week and give a decision as soon as possible. The same word Was sent to a number of other complaining labor organizations throughout the country. Officials said few men would leave their work pending further consideration of their claims by the wage board, which is expected to meet here Monday. Most of the strongest strong-est protests have come from local organizations, organ-izations, which did not understand that further modification of the wage scale might be made after Investigation. ROCK ISLAND, 111., May 20. Acting in conjunction with the railroad shop craftsmen of the thirty-four big railroad systems of the United States, the em-i em-i p'loyees of the Silvis shops of the Rock Island road have presented demands for wage increases, an eight-hour day and time and a half for overtime, threatening to strike Friday noon unless their demands de-mands are met, according to S. W. Mulli-nix, Mulli-nix, superintendent of the shops, to whom the workers presented their ultimatum. ulti-matum. The strike, if carried out, will affect several hundred workers. |