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Show Rise in Cost d Living Cited to Labor Board WASHINGTON. April 23. Argu-n-.ents on the wage increases demanded demand-ed by conductors and switchmen were made before the railroad labor board today by L. E. Sheppard, president of toe Brotherhood of Railway Conductors, Conduc-tors, and Samuel Heberling, president of the Switchmen's Union of North America. Both cited the rise in the cost of living during the past few years to support the plea for higher wages. Demands of the switchmen call for pay increases of approximately 5S per cent with time and a half for overtime. Sundays and holidays. Similar overtime over-time allowances are asked by the con-, ductors together with wages sufficient to enable them to live on a pre-war standard. They ask in addition an allowance al-lowance for expenses when kept away from home. Final setback to the efforts of the unauthorized strikers to get their cases j before tbo board was given today at :the White House when Secretary Tumulty Tu-multy told representatives of the Yardmen's association that President . Wilson would not intercede in their be-j be-j half as long as they remained away i "From work. |