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Show WILL ASK RATE INCREASE. Railroads Desire to Raise Rates to Meet Increase in Wages. Denver. A telegram to President Wilson asking him to support a petition peti-tion to be presented to congress requesting re-questing authority for railroads to raise all rates sufficiently to cover a substantial advance in wages of 1,500,-000 1,500,-000 railroad employees not affected by the Adamson law, was sent to Wash- N ington by the executive committee of the local organization of Non-union Railroad Employees. |