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Show RAIL EMPLOYEES WILL DEFER STRIKE PENDING PARLEYS WASHINGTON. July 3 1 . Representative Representa-tive or the s:x railroa l sn-jp " tuons v-zho ,ir" in coniu: h-.i.- -.virM ra:.roa'l an- mi;tstr:t!ori officials t-h--,'ra;-h.-'.l to y.iop e'liioyu-- over t!:r ijouiitry today not to tsrriiJ i..n.liitt,' finu! .: tlerniit of their ! fi.-;nan'l.s. Yho v.-orknn-Ti w.-re informed i thaf'th'- rai!rjai a. I ruin i ?U a tion hari con-'-ntf'l to cii'.t'r inro national aLTKment vith the unions covering rnWn and work- Il.lf ('UIKiKli.IKS. Tin- L-oiiinii:trtl represents 4a'J,Or'i men. Two bro.'i'J buhjcot.s were up for eonsid-0 eonsid-0 ra i lo n ' i" cat Ion of a nation;;! nxrement a r.il a very substantial increase in wtDeH (o me.-t iucreasLcl livustt eosts, which tho .jomuutt-M- s-a id had caused a serious slate of unrest am.niL' tua shopmen. 'Ve are now officially assurer) by the dire. -ior neneial that the railroad administration admin-istration will i:i:n national agreement." said the t'-leram to the shopmen. '"An earnest er'fort s now being made by the din-eiur x fii era I to t-'ive us deiinite information in-formation at the earliest pos.sinle moment aa to position of railroad administration regard) u:; w ae matters. "The successful termination of our efforts ef-forts depends upon the united support of all nwn involved. There must be no stopple of work during these negotiations. negotia-tions. We will advise you as soon as we are in possession of further definite information." in-formation." Another Advance in Milk. CHICAGO, July :u. Chicago retail distributors dis-tributors notified their patrons today that, beginning' tomorrow, the price of milk will be increased from It to 15 cents a quart, and the price of cream from 15 Lo lti cents a half pint. Retailers explained that thV producers had increased the price of milk to distributors dis-tributors 52 cents a hundred pounds for August, and that this made it necessary to raise the price to consumers. S. y. Chappell, president of one of the largest retail milk distributing companies of Chicago, stated, in further explanation of the. increase, that a new state law permits per-mits milk producers to organize and fix prices collectively. "We have no idea how long the present price fixed by the producers will continue," con-tinue," lie added. Officials of tho Milk Producers' association associa-tion are at present under indictment charged with conspiracy to fix the price of their product. The indictments were voted in li'lT, and State's Attorney Hoyne expects to try the cases next month. At the suggestion of the federal government the trial of the cases was postponed until after the war. Urged to Stop Profiteering. ! L.1NCOL.N, July 31. A resolution by State. Representative E. H. Gerhart of Newman Grove, Neb., was introduced in the house of the Nebraska legislature today to-day to "petition congress to immediately enact such legislation as will stop profiteering profi-teering and reduce to a fair price, at the earliest possible date, all food and necessities neces-sities of life." Another resolution asking Governor Samuel R. McKelvie to call an extraordinary legislative session "to take up the matter of profiteering," was offered of-fered yesterday! Action on both measures mea-sures went over until tomorrow. The present session of the legislature was called recently hy the governor for action on the federal woman suffrage amendment. |