Show RAILWAYS WITHDRAW DEMANDS disagreement between eastern roads and men to be settled by arbitration new now york tho the eastern railroads on saturday withdrew their demand that their grievances against the em eloyes should be considered by the fed federal deral board appointed to arbitrate the demand for better ages ana and working rv conditions made by conductors and trainmen this concession apparently removed the only remaining obstacle to arbitration and averted a strike with this issue disposed of the railroad managers and the labor leaders expected to reach a speedy agreement on the text of the questions to be laid before the board of arbitration |