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Show CRISIS MAY BE AVERTED Knapp and Hanger to Mediate Between Firemen Fire-men and Roads New York. Feb. 12 w. s. Carter, i president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Loco-motive Firemen and Bnginemen, am-' am-' plltied today his statement of yes- terday that the railroads were determined deter-mined to put lear into the heart of Woodrow Wilson" by a great strike i a means of securing higher freight rates and added that, In his opinion. Wall street was responsible for the , situation The firemen's leader gave this as j his analysis of the deadlock now existing ex-isting between r4 eastern railroads and their 34,000 firemen immediate he had concluded a conference with Judge Martin A Knapp of the Unit-. Unit-. ed States commerce court and G. W i Hanger, acting cominisaioner of labor, la-bor, before whom both sides are to I explaia their contentions. J New Nock, Feb. 12 Judge Martin ; . Knapp of 'be commerce court, one i of the mediators under the Erdman ! act, reached New York early today from Washington, prepared to extend his offices to the Protherbood of Lo-coinothe Lo-coinothe Firemen and Engineers and ' the conference committee of the 51 eastern railroads, deadlocked over 'he-question 'he-question of wages and working conditions con-ditions The jiid'e bas as his assist ant G W. W. Hanger, acting commissioner commis-sioner of labor Mthough the firemen hae voted 1 overwhelmingly for a strike unless 1 their demands are granted or the differences dif-ferences settled by mediation a decision de-cision officially reported to the railroads rail-roads yesterda both sides expressed renewed hope that, with Messrs Knapp and Hanger on the scene. crisis would be averted Rli-iha Lee. chairman of the confer I ence committee of railroad managers j reiterated bis contention thai the rail i roads were sincere In their stand and ' bad no desire to "awe Woodrow Wilson Wil-son with a great strike. ' as was charged by President arter of the I brotherhood, when yesterday's con- ference broke up. |