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Show WILSON MEETING SHOPMEN Cancels Engagements to Confer With Hines And Delegates. INCREASE IS GRANTED President Offers 4 Cents An Hour More Pay To the Men. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 President Wilson today submitted to representatives representa-tives of the six railroad shop crafts a proposal to pay shopmen 4 cents an hour increase on a basis of ten hours' pay for eight hours' work, retroactive to May 1. The president told the committee of 100 representing the shop crafts that any greater increase now would greatly great-ly increase the cost of living and therefore was inadvisable. Certain classes of shopmen, car inspectors, in-spectors, repairmen, who have been receiving 63 cents and 58 cents respectively, re-spectively, would be paid 67 cents an hour under the proposed scale. The shopmen's representatives told the president they would submit the proposition to their members whose original demands were for an advance of 25 per cent. The president requested re-quested that the men not act on the original proopsition of having a congressional con-gressional commission pass on the wage demands. A vote of the shopmen shop-men on this proposition is now being tabulated. V. 4SHINGTON, Aug 25 President Wilson cancelled several engagements today in order to confer with Director-General Director-General Hines and representatives of the railroad shopmen who are depending de-pending a 25 per cent increase in v, age DirectorGeneral Hines' decision on vragc demands recently presented by railroad shopmen was expected to tit made and announced today Mr. Hinrs was in conference during the day With Ttfuials of the railway employes department de-partment of the American Federation af Labor. Contract Is Signed. WASHINGTON, Aug 23. The railroad rail-road adminisiration today signed a "ontrnct with the Pullman company r-allimr for an annual rental of r. 7r.n.fMi'. . rr |