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Show R. R. MEN WANT DISPUTLBOARDS Sixteen Unions Ask Wage Board for Means tn End Other Difficulties CHICAGO,' Nov 30. Representatives Representa-tives of the sixteen recognised railway labor unions Monday aflked the railway-labor railway-labor board to find some plan through which differences between the roads and their employes, other than wage lies, could be settled Tho union bends declared that unless some satisfactory satis-factory plan "was forthcoming Immediately, Imme-diately, the men would take the settlement set-tlement of such disputes In their own bands." During federal control of the rall-roads, rall-roads, disputes which did not Involve wage agreements were settled by boards of adjustment known as No, ), 2 and 3. These boards went out of nee when ihe roids were returned return-ed to private ownership, and the employes em-ployes ..nt them i e-established Tho roads contended when the matter mat-ter cume up In recent wage hearing before theWird that th board had power only to di with wage questions ques-tions and that consequently It could nol rule i n other differences The hoard took tho pi0a of tho employes em-ployes under advisement and announced an-nounced that if it decided to go into he matter an early hearing would bo |