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Show 'DDE TIRED OF delay,' mm TD WAGE BOMD I "We've Been Patriotic While Millionaires Were Being Created." He Savs i PROFITEERS MOCKING i GOVERNMENT CLAIMS Railroad Workers Demand i Action at Once, Brother- 1 hood Chief Asserts j 1 WASHINGTON, April 24. ' 'I Warning 'against further de- ' 1 lay in settling the wage de- j mands of the two million rail- Iroad workers of the country, j' 1 Timothy Shea, vice president .5 1 iof the Brotherhood of Loco- f .1 jmotive Firemen and Engine f ( :men, told the railroad laboi I I ! board today that the men H "were fed up on promises and I . dead, dog-tired of delays." - Mr. Shea presented the de- U mands of the firemen Jind . J j -fhbstlersrfor abasic;lrving-wae' J ! iof $6.50 a day, with differen- j j itials for skill, responsibilityi 1 j j j experience and the increase in j the cost of living since the dc- 'mands were first presented last H June. . ,1, j When he had urged the 'striking railroad men in "the wj least to return to work he said j their almost universal justifi I H .cation for striking was thai I M jthey and thejr families weret B (starving at work and they jll j"must just as well starve nol yj working." ; $a Mr. Shea said the railroad IT workers had been patient and they had -been patriotic. H I "We were patriotic," he K9 said, "while the thousands and nfl !tens of thousands of war mil- HI lionaires were b'eing created. j l We have been patient whik I ' -the profiteers have paused in I their orgy of spending ill-got- ten gains only long enough tc skyrocket prices still highei and make a mockery of oui j government's promise that living liv-ing costs would be reduced. "Gentlemen, the time has. 'come when our people say ;they will no longer be patriotic patri-otic only to be plundered, noT patient only to be pauperized They have learned by bittei experience that their landlordt are not 'patriotic' and thai j their grocers are not 'patient. They are fed up on promises, I . and they are dead, dog-tired I of delays." I J |