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Show MIL EMPLOYEES TO TJMIKE Definite Action on Proposal j Expected by End of the Present Week. i DETROIT, Mich., Sept. S. Definite ac- i . tion by the end of this week on the threatened threat-ened strike is expected of the convention of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop Laborers, La-borers, which opened its session today with more than 20i0 delegates from the United States, Canada and Panama canal zone present. The membership has already voted power to the executive committee to call a continent-wide strike of the 600,000 men in these crafts unless wage demands and working agreements asked of the railway administration of the United States and the Canadian government are granted. On Friday the convention will discuss the wage question from every angle and likely will take decisive action on the proposed strike. Sentiment of the convention con-vention Is overwhelmingly in favor of a walkout unless the demands are granted. Answer from the railroad administration to the demands presented is expected Friday. Fri-day. The men are firm in their determination, determi-nation, brotherhood officers state, not to accept a compromise, even on the basis of the 4 cents an hour increase decided upon by President Wilson for other railroad workers, with the plea that they suspend action on wage demands until the government govern-ment completed its campaign to return conditions to normal. |