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Show MAY INVOKE HELP FR0MG0NGRESS PRESIDENT MAY ASK LEGISLATION LEGISLA-TION TO PREVENT NATION-WIDE STRIKE OF RAILROAD MEN. Brotherhood Committee, Tired of Their Long Walt, Depart for Home, Delegating Dele-gating Their Powers to Committee Com-mittee of Twenty-four. "Washington. Tentative plans for a joint session of the senate and house to hear President "Wilson ask for legislation leg-islation to prevent the threatened nation-wide railroad strike were discussed dis-cussed by the president with Senator Kern, the Democratic leader, Sunday, when it seemed virtually certain that a break between the railroads and their employees must follow final conferences con-ferences at the White House. Possibilities of legislation were talked over by the president with Senator Sen-ator Newlands, chairman of the interstate inter-state commerce commission, and Secretary Sec-retary Lane, and the president made a quiet trip to the senate office -building to find Senator Kern attending a meeting meet-ing of the finance committee. The belief that negotiations between the railroad executives and representatives representa-tives of the men would end without an agreement has been growing. This feeling was strengthened when the members of the brotherhood committee com-mittee of 640, tired of their long wait, departed for home after delegating their powers to effect a settlement or call a strike to a committee of twenty-four, twenty-four, instructed under no circumstances circum-stances to agree to arbitration of the demand for an eight-hour day at the present rate of pay for ten hours. Whether the plans considered by President Wilson and his advisers at the capitol will be carried out depends upon developments, but it Is understood under-stood that if all efforts fail to bring the employers and their men together the president will go before congress and ask that it deal with the situation even if that necessitates indefinitely prolonging pro-longing the present session. Unless the railroad heads recede from their demand for arbitration of the eight-hour day proposal, one brotherhood broth-erhood member said, a strike affecting about 400,000 men will be called within with-in the next ten days. |