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Show MEN WERE IN WRONG Admit That They Erred in Declaring Strike in New York. NEW YORK. March 20. A secret conference con-ference has been held between t. D. Hurley Hur-ley of Cleveland, assistant grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Engi-neers, and the members of the division of that order who were involved in the lnterborough strike and whose charter was suspended by Grand Chief Stone. Considerable encouragement was held out to the men. manv of whom are now out of work. Hurley said those who were not concerned In the strike will be protected. pro-tected. "Members of 10o;" he said, "have acknowledged ac-knowledged they did wrong and have expressed ex-pressed a willingness to make proper amends. I think that finally everything will be settled satisfactorily to all concerned con-cerned and the division rehabilitated in time. "Members of the division not concerned in the strike will be taken care of in other oth-er divisions, hut the division itself cannot be restored and the members purged of their offense until the assembly of the grand convention in May. 1306, In Memphis." Mem-phis." Each member stated that he had voted to strike understanding!)- and unanimously unani-mously and that Chief Engineer Jencks had not endeavored to influence the men either way. The suggestion that some-bed some-bed v had profited by the calling off of the strike was set aside. It was said, as too ridiculous for serious consideration. |