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Show "Big Four" to Press Demands, Railman Says (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) CHICAGO, Nov. 15. Timothy Shea, president of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, told the public ownership owner-ship conference in the Congress hotel today that he and the other chiefs of the "big four'' had decided de-cided President Wilson could not make good his promise to reduce the high cost of living by the methods meth-ods he had elected to pursue. In consstmence, Mr. Shea said, the 2.000.000 railroad employees of America would press their demands for an increase in pay proportionate to the higher prices of necessities and for an actual instead of a basic eight-hour day, "with time and a half for overtime. "And those demands," he declared, de-clared, "must be granted whether the United States retains control of the lines or turns theai back to their owners on December 31. In the Iat ter event, however, the demands must be settled first and their full-filrr.ent full-filrr.ent made one of the conditions under vrhich the roads are surrendered. surren-dered. ''' He announced that the brotherhoods brother-hoods intended to resist both the Cummins and the Esch bills with all their power. |