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Show RAILWAY EMPLOYEES PRESENT A PROTEST WASHINGTON. Nov. 14.-n earnest protest was mad" to the President today agalnst proposed railroad freight rate legislation. The protest was filed by representatives rep-resentatives of the five great labor organizations or-ganizations connected with railroading-the railroading-the engineers. firemen, conductors, switchmen and trainmen. The members of the delegation which called on the President represented the several organisations. They pointed out to him that railroad rate legislation logically log-ically meant the lowering of rates. This, they contended, will be followed by a lessening of the earning power of railroads rail-roads and consequently by reduction eventually In the wages of railroad employees. |