OCR Text |
Show PLAN TO RAISE i WAGES OF MEN 1 WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. Plans for ! raising the pay of the rank and file of railway workers and reducing some of tho ''Very high salaries paid to execu- f tivo officials, were discussed today at a conference between Director General 1 McAdoo and tho federal, board of mediation me-diation and conciliation. The board now has before It the pending de- f mands for' wage Increases ranging as high as 40 per cent for tho four great .5 brotherhoods. l It has .been known that the govern- I ment was disposed to. grant some in-crease in-crease and the railrond men in turn f have given Ihcir word they will not . attempt a strike while the govern- 11 ment is taking hold of the railroad situation. 00 b . . CI |