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Show MEDIATION BOARD I OPENS HEARINGS I Hopes for Settlement of Great j I Railroad Wage Dispute H Take Definite Shape. H PERSONNEL !S NAMED I U. S. Government, Engineers, ! I Firemen, Hostlers and S Managers of Roads In- H volved Represented. iH mm iilV IBII Chicago. July 20 Hopes for a sab H isfactory settlement of the wage dis- V pute between the englnemen of the H v. estern railroads and their employers H took definite shape today with the H assembly of the federal board of H mediation, whose good offices have ' w been accepted by both sideB. 1 H William L Chambers, chairman of H the mediation board; Martin A. H Knapp federal judge, and G. W, W. H Hanger, assistant commissioner of la- 1 bor, arrived here yesterday to repre- "M sent the government in the Confer- ; ence In which the locomotive engi- H nr-ers will be represented by their 1 H grand chief Warren S. Stone and the H firemen and hostlers by W. S Carter, president of their brotherhood H The manager's committee of the 98 H roads involved is headed by A. W. Trenholm of the Chicago. St. Paul, I H Minneapolis & Omaba railroad. S Alternate ljleetings Arranged. fl The mediators heard first the side H of the railroads, which was presented jH by Mr. Trenholm, and later were to H take up the employes' case. The H program calls for alternate meetings ' ' jH of the mediators with the representa-tives representa-tives of the roads and of the men. H oo H |