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Show POLICIES OF LEE GET INDORSEMENT ri.KVKl.ANP. O., Juno IB. The reelection re-election of W. O. I-ee as president of the Rrotherhood of Railroad Trainmen at the convention of that organisation in Toronto, (int., recently, la taken to mean Indorsement of his conservative policies of the last threw yeara. Mr. Iee was re-elected on tho first ballot ; over Vn Mtspntrtrk and A. K. Whit-I Whit-I ney, vlc-praldn(a. In 1.. it waa Mr. Le who broke i the unauthorised strike of switchmen, most of whom were mPmbere of his organisation. Hhortfy afterward he couanelled the acceptance of a moderate mod-erate wage Increase which whs lower than the brotherhood h-vl demanded, last fall, almost single handed. Mr. Iee npposeil the movement to strike against the reduction ln pay awarded the rvnds lat July. Mr. l,ce haa taken prominent part In all Joint wage movement a of the railway brotherhooda for twenty years. Including the one culminating in the Adnmaon law In .91- i lie Joined the brotherhood tn served local 'committeea In the West and then on a system committee of the Vnlon imclfic, became vlce-presi- dent in 1 f04 und waa first fleeted president ln 190. i |