Show IND INDUSTRIES US TRIES IN INAGE WAGE AGE WAR AR TO HOLD Railroads Forced Into Payroll Increases ses by Steel and Packing De Demands Demands De- De mands for More Labor I De-I LABOR DOMINATES SITUATION CLAIM Prosperity Era of PeaceTime Peace Time Regarded as N Notable Notable Not Not- ot- ot able Min Minor r I Industries Forced F orce t to Increase Pay CHICAGO May 12 By U U. P P. I American Industry is deadlocked in a billion d d dollar lI t wage wago war to obtain additional labor Railroads meeting the recent heavy adv advances in the steel and andI packing ind Industries will under I awards already alread gr granted nt d and nd others being negotiated hand out or more mor yearly to common la labor bor I Major are are Awarding maintenance and shop laborers laborer a t ato tto to 10 per advances cerit cent advances on ae he I average of one system a day diy I Labor End and nd Ind industrial leaders said this Is the first time In peace time that hat demand for men men who work with their m muscle scle has completely dominated the country's Courtry's Industrial I progress Railroads pack packers rs steel concerns and manufactories are fighting I each othe other In the Chicago labor market in an effort to fill demands caused by the prosperity era era Minor Inor industries and small employers employers em em- caught in the struggle are areal al also o advancing pay That the higher pay move will soon skilled and white collar collar col col- lar workers as an economic necessity necessity necessity sity was seen in the fact fact that various unions on dozens of ot railway railway rail rall- wa way lines are negotiating with managers m direct for tor increases Iti If It these negotiations are not success- success I Jf 4 i s board The board preparing to hear pleas plea of ot maint nance and shop laborers on a group gro of roads expects a a flood flod of petitions from skilled workers Railroads recently increasing the I I pay of at laborers Include th the Santa SantaFe Fe Pe Pennsylvania New York Central Central Cen Cen- I Great N Northern and Chicago I Alton I Increases already aheady granted under I negotiations and co contemplation I involving rail rall workers total about i I yearly yearl according to labor estimates here tere The Increase I granted and I contemplated by the steel packer clothing manufacturing manufacturing manufacturing turing and other industries brings the total t to about tb-about about a billion annu annu- ally p |