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Show 1ABOR LEADERS' LAUNCH OFFENSIVE CHICAGO. March t, Railroad labor leaders who have charged that the proposed pro-posed Immediate . abrogation of the nstlonal wage agreements Is "a plot of Wsll street financiers to break unionism," and establish the open shop plan to begin their offenaive before the railroad labor board with cross examination exam-ination . of railroad exeeultves at the resumption of the hearings Thursday. -In a letter to the board today, B. M. Jewell, president of the railway department depart-ment of the American Federation of Labor, naked the hoard to subpoena at once sixteen executives, including T. DeWItt Cuyler of the New York Central Cen-tral and W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsylvania lines, who have led the executives' attack on the agreements, and Hale Holden of the Chicago, Burlington Bur-lington Qulncy: H. E. Byram. Chicago, Chi-cago, Milwaukee A St. Paul; Cart R. Oray. Union Pacific, and W. R. Scott, Houthern Psciflc. |