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Show PULLMAN SHOP FORCES WILLING TO CUT WAGES i 1 1 ICAC' '. !' 3 Itepresentallv es of i hi 9,000 persons employed by the Pullman company In Its car shops here have notified company officials that they are willing to auhmit to wae reductions re-ductions ranging as tiigrh ns 2ft per i cent if the company feels that present pres-ent business lomlitlons make lower wages necessary, it was announced Wednesday ly company officials. The proposition will not be Sctad upon until un-til after the first of the year. The company wiui given no Intimation Intima-tion of the proposal until .-i committee commit-tee I iiled with it. It was sai'l by one official of the company, and there had been no llscusslon of a reduction of wages prior to the action taken by the men Officials said wape in the Pullman shops had Increased 1 00 per cent ill the last three years, the average now being ?G 7 7 a day Last June I lie company established mi "industrial demoi rucy." In which the men were gi,ten an equal voice with their employer em-ployer !n affairs which affected, Uheni and tbe propdsal to reduce wages Is one result of this plan. H was said at the company's headduarters. |