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Show uu Present Wage Demands to Board at Capital WASHINGTON, April 22. Wage demands ot the railroad switchmen, many of whom recently wont out on , an "unauthorized" strike, were pro-Isented'to pro-Isented'to the railroad labor board to-I to-I day by S. E. Hoborling, president of the Switchmen's union of North Amor- lea. ! Asking a wage advance for the men I of ES per cent, with tlmo and a half , for overtime, Sundays and holidays, Mr. Hoberllng said their work was more hazardous than that of any other railroad workers, and tho percentage of deaths and accidents was higher than in tho coal mining industry. Tho average industrial llfo of switchmen, Hoberllng said, Is seven years. |