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Show ill? HIS DISPUTE ARISES i Industrial Conference Ap-; j pointments Contested j by Employees. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. "Dilute has arisen between The four railroad brotherhoods brother-hoods and the fourteen other unions of railroad employees as to representation In t he industrial conference called by President Wilson for October 6. The p res; den t instructed Pirector General Gen-eral I- ; n e s to have t h c ra i iroa d n n i o n s represented by four men, and Mr. IIir.es transmitted the instructions to all the unions. The four brotherhoods appointed appoint-ed the four men without regard to the other employees. Protest soon was forthcoming forth-coming from the shop, maintenance of way, clerk and other unions that they j should be allowed to participate in the selection of the representatives, but the ! question has no: been settled. The four brotherhoods were sa:d today to have based their action on the fact of the appoininv-nt of other do'.ec.itcs to the conference of the A merle:; n Fe Juration Jura-tion of L-ahor. with which t lie fourteen railroad unions are affiliated. WASHINGTON', Sept. :.. June Klhert H. Gary, chairman of the board of directors direc-tors of the United Stat.- Steel corporation corpora-tion has wired h;s acceptance of President Presi-dent Wilson's invitation tn participate in the industrial conference here October 6. I |