Show i 16 Rail Unions Launch 3rd Pay Hours Drive WASHINGTON April 10 UP UP JP Sixteen ra riD road unions started their third postwar wage drive 3 They demanded a hour 40 week and a wage raise of an hornAt hot horn l lAt At St. St Louis George Leighty president of the Order of Ra R road Telegraphers and chairman of the drive said letters w we mailed Saturday to the headquarters of each railroad These unions representing aw ab abt t railroad workers j t raises of or 18 c in 1916 19 and in 1947 Their third drive begins berth three operating brotherhoods brotherhood the engineers firemen and men men have have completed their s M Mond ond and Those three have rejected the proposal ol of oil White House emergency bali boi J that they accept 15 c to Nov 1 A A. strike is after April 26 J The 16 unions i a railway clerks machinists machinist boil bout makers blacksmiths sheet me met workers electrical workers r rj riI J way carmen firemen and oll maintenance of ot way ri ri ra r road o 0 a d telegraphers t yardmasters restaurant shipmasters marine engineers i 11 longshoremen j Their major goals are I j 1 1 A cut in the work week fr frO 48 to 40 hours without any red redu tion in the present earnings for 48 hours Jj II 2 A raise of an hourA wage rates after the hours ment has been made The unions want those terms be effective May 10 f Each railroad is being aske asked fix a date for the start of nr q net but not later than May The customary procedure U il ii consolidate talks and bargain n II I J |