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Show DEMANDS TO HAVE CONSIDERATION BY RAIL ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 T. Demands of American railroad firemen and hostlers for Increased wages and changes in working conditions, as outlined in a wage scale adopted today at Cleveland by the general chairman of the Brotherhood of locomotive Firemen and Knginemen, probably will be considered along with the demands of other railroad workers, railroad administration officials said tonight. to-night. Director General Mines, although never stating definitely whether the demands de-mands would be presented to one of the railroad administration's boards on wages and working conditions, or would be settled set-tled by direct negotiations, has said that a wage advance to one class of railroad workers would force consideration of the claims of all the nation's two million railroad rail-road employees. The firemen's request for more pay Is the third to be placed before the railroad administration. The request of the shopmen shop-men Is to be taken up immediaiely on return to work of the shopmen who have been on strike. The trainmen's brotherhood brother-hood also has a wage increase pending. The conductors have given notice that they would ask for an advance, while the engineers have expressed a desire for a reduction In the cost of living rather than more wages. The pending demands would add many millions of dollars, officials said, to the payroll of the railroad -administration, which, In its operation of tlie roads, has met with a steadily growing deficit for several months. Figures on which might be computed what the addition of the firemen's demands of 35 to 66 per cent increase to the yearly payroll would mean were not available tonight. |