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Show INCREASE IS ASKED Cenductors ef the Rio Grande Want Advance of 20 Per Cent. DENVER. March 14. Deleates from the Order of Railway Conductors and officials of the Denver & Rio Grande have arranged for a conference, during which a 'number of grievances are to be submitted. Among other things the men will ask for a 15 and -0 per cent increase in pay and for the reinstatement of a number of men discharged during the last two years. At a meeting between Manager Edeon and the engineers and firemen it was found that, the schedule of increased in-creased salaries adopted recently by the Santa Fe road, and which the Rio Grande was willing to accept as a basis for the settlement of the matter Is not as a whole, when all conditions are considered, con-sidered, as much as the road now pays. |