Show I INCREASE IS CONSIDERED Short Line Employees May Get Raise Along With Others A San Francisco paper has the following following following fol fol- fol- fol lowing to sa say relative to Mr Bancroft's present visit to that place W W. W H. H Bancroft of oC Salt Lake vice vice- president and general manager of oC E. E H. H Harriman's Oregon Short hort Line and Julius Ju Ju- Ju- Ju flue lius of the Southern Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- began an important conference Tuesday As near as can be ascertained ascertained ascer ascer- tamed Harriman has called upon Krutschnitt and Bancroft to act to together together together to- to toI I gether In the matter mattel of handling the demands of employees ees for higher wages has Just consented to In Increase Increase increase In- In crease the Southern Pacific telegraph operators' operators pay 10 per cent The engineers engineers engi engl- and firemen are likely to get a similar Increase The Tho switchmen of or the Union Pacific and all the roads centering In Chicago have e been granted an Increase of 12 per cent It I is iq said to be the desire of Harriman to bring the pay of Oregon Short Line and Southern Pacific switchmen switchmen switch switch- men up to the Chicago standard This will not require as much of or an Increase on the Southern Pacific as on the Oregon Oregon Ore- Ore gon jon Short Line for tor the former company i is now pa paying Its switchmen almost as ns high a rate as th the new nev Chicago stan stan- dard |