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Show lis ID PRSS i 08 111 SSI 3 Proposals for Settlement ot k Fare Problem Put Up n at Election. ! LfWiin, Colo., Aug- 13. Two propo- ioi's for' settlement of the tramway , Le problem, one calling for an "clastic" t fere, the other a scrvice-at-cost will be submitted to the voters 'I're at a special election, possibly -N'o-rcn tK-r 4 next. It was decided today at I Mttihig of city and Denver Tramway '''.''elastic'' fare system, sponsored k.'tl'-'- civ.' and Ihe tramway company, 5,..d', for li-p-nt fares as long as pres-lo pres-lo trainmen continue or until n au-ri-se- waKu in five other cities .1 U-iow the wafte schedule here. Street car workers now receive -SS cents l"rhe service-at-cost plan, providing for , f,'iV'uatii fiire based. n earniuip of iriniV.ay company, 'S backed by a ;.;,. ,,.,. r.f fifty-five representative til u-r'citlzcns. Nearly thirty officials l" lot tramway company approve the , irr-at-cost proposal. Truimav- einp'oyees are demanding a ,r;i!" of 7l cenls an hour. Lnder i 'yl'i!i" plan, wages of trainmen h,'.,c -ire to correspond with those- re-" re-" ..., l,v street railway workers in St. KaiiM'S Oil v, Omaha, Milwaukee ,.'.1 Paul. The average wage paid J" t,j work in the five cities is ap-nr--niatelv what tho J'enver street car Sv-'m-i-s now receive. Unless wages are inr'i-Wd in ,,lf' five cities before So-..,.,,,1,,-r no demands made by the worker's work-er's here couid he granted by the board of control to be created under the sys-ifm sys-ifm Members of the union informed the ntv' committee that the workers would refu-o to be governed by the wages paid the five cities and that their demands for increases would be pressed immediacy immedi-acy after the special election. |