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Show SHOPMEN H ACCEPT OFFEO Official Predicts Unions Will Agree to Wilson Proposal. Shopmen of Salt Lake will accept the proposal of President "Wilson that they agree to a wage increase of four cents an hour and await efforts to reduce re-duce the cost of living, in the opinion of J. V. Sartori, secretary of the Denver Den-ver & "Rio Grande Federation of Railway Rail-way Shop Crafts. The various locals will vote upon the offer, and the returns will be sent to B. M. Jewell, acting president of the railway employees' department of the American Federation of .Labor, Mr. Sar-tori Sar-tori said. He declared that several of the unions already have balloted, aud indications point to an acceptance of the proposition. Mr. Sartori says that, although other railroad employees have had their wages adjusted so that they receive ten hours' pay for eight hours' work, this is not true in the case of the shopmen. Last September they were given a raise of 13 cents an hour, but this is not equivalent to ten hours ' pay for eight hours of work, he said. The four-cent four-cent increase offered by the government would raise the wages of the shop workers in an equal proportion to those of the other railway employees, according accord-ing to Mr. Sartori. |