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Show .& - $ 8 4 ISTRieS Short Line Railroads May Be Given Chance to Adjust Pay RAILROAD CLAIMS IN CHICAGO DISPUTED Insurgents Indicate no Disposition Dispo-sition to Yield to Pleas to Return I WASHINGTON, April 27 Short line railroads may be given a hearing on tho wage demands of railroad workers before the railroad labor board finally ndjusts the pay controversy. Chairman Barton announced today that the board had this matter under' advisement. E. T. Whiter, chairman of the railway executives committee, told the board that his committee represented repre-sented 115 of the some 600 roads of the country and that these 115 had between be-tween 80 and 90 per cent of the total mileage. The board today refused hearings on tJlJi'iJJ5.(i- demands-of.striking railroad "employes -at "-Philadelpfilato'and' "Pittsburg "Pitts-burg and the non-recogTilzed Chicago Express and Freight Handlers union. Timothy Shea, vice president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, told the board that the employes wage demands would he presented to the short lines by tomorrow. Shea continued the representation of the firemen's demands calling attention atten-tion to the particular hardships of their work. CHICAGO, April 27. Claims of railroad rail-road officials lhat 90 per cent of the normal freight traffic was being moved j in the Chicago district today were dis-puted dis-puted by manufacturers", who declared j receipt of raw materials was seriously 'curtailed and that outgoing shipments jwero far below normal. ' Embargoes on many roads due to I the switchmen's and enginemen's strike are declared to be still in force intermittently. Coal and food supplies which havo been given preference, were reported to be moving normally. The Insurgents indicated np disposition dispo-sition today to yield and railroads went ahead with efforts to facilitate operation. The railway managers association as-sociation announced that 19S3 strikers had returned to work. |