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Show RIO GRANDE TO CONFER WITH ITS LOCOMOTIVE MEN General Superintendent A B. Apper-.-on of the Denver & Rio Grande, and several superintendents of divisions In Utah will meet representatives of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Engi-neers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Loco-motive Firemen today in Superintend ent Apperson's offices in the louver Rio Grande depot. Salt Lake, to adjust ad-just whatever differences there maybe may-be between engineers and firemen and the railroad company In regard to higher vvagea The engineers and firemen have asked that their pay-be pay-be Increased, and the railroad com pany does not think that the wapei should be raised at this time All over the country engineers and firemen are in conference with gen- i eral managers of the various railroad systems in regard to an Increase In wages. It Is said that the number of ; hours to constitute a dav's work Is also to be considered by the grievance griev-ance committee of the engineers and ilnwn and the officials of the rail-, rail-, rond company The meeting is for the annual ad j Justment of the wage scale accord j Ing to Superintendent Apperson, and I the conference may last several days before any announcement is made as I to the agreement reached |