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Show ELECTRIC RAILWAYS KEEP FORCES BUSY CHICAGO; Feb. 10. During thoj 1 f 1: business depression, "the little Old trolley car has rallied right along" and 'out of two million and more men out of work In the Fulled States, not one Is an employe of an electric railway," rail-way," P h. Gadsden, president of the American Flectric Railway association, associa-tion, declared today at the organization organiza-tion s mid-year conference. Since 1917, -said the speaker, who I mad" the opening address of the meeting, wages and materials oostfl Increased sii and 100 per cent respectively respec-tively but, opposed to this was on! ). ill pe!" cenl increase In fares Only : It; of the 943 traction companies S11 tho country failed. I The speaker admitted that not all ; I traction lines are well financed, rating I several acute cases in several cities, j I but Insisted the general national sitUO-l I tion was promising. |