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Show MAKE PROGRESS IN PEACE PROPOSALS NJi:V YORK, March 1. Marked progress prog-ress toward averting resumption of the strike of 16,000 harbor workers was reported re-ported tcftiight, after a four-hour conference confer-ence of the strike committee of the Marine Ma-rine Workers' atllliat Ion with representatives represen-tatives of the New York Boat Owners' a.HHoeiatlon, United States railroad administration ad-ministration and army and navy transportation trans-portation services. l'aul Bonynge, counsel for the boat owners, at whose suggestion the conference confer-ence was held, announced that he "had waved aloft the olive branch." but declined de-clined to disclose the nature of the proposal pro-posal he had made. Union leaders said that Mr. Bonynge had offered a 10 per cent wase increase, but they declined to discuss his proposal with reference to their demand for an debt-hour day. |