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Show ff ': Wage-Increase of One r Dollar a Day Asked, -' I . CHICAGO, Aprl 19. A rekuest fora! j temporary wage increase of one dollar !' , a day witlr time and a half for ovj- I time after eight hours, pending 'the : I devision of the railroad labor board on wage demands, was made tonight by " the General Chairman's association ot'j ? '. ' the northwest Ulstrict of the United j i. m Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way, a Employes and Railroad Shop La-i borers. ' :,-3 One hundred thousand members of! J , ithfi brotherhood in the district would leave work Individually April 28, III j demands were not granted, the asso-j 4 uiation stated in a telegram to E F. I Grable, of Detroit, president of the I :; brotherhood, in asking him to present f-ifl Hie request to the labor board, Presi- -;JH dent Wilson and the General Mana- j er8' association: frV'l , '; According to Frank M. Silli, a broth- "jl erhood official, the men now receive jijl from $2.24 to $3.20 a day. The north- Drffl western district includes territory Vflm yrjthin 500 miles of Chicago. Thirty-fye Thirty-fye roads would be affected. |