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Show ! CALL MEETING i. Engineers, Trainmen and I Firemen Accept Bid to 1 Later Confab r I r NEW VuRK, Feiv 7. Wage nego-L nego-L tlatlons leading up to regional oonfar-I oonfar-I cnce9 suggested recently by Secretary ' Mo. AIT, Will le reviewed l the Coll- i ference committee of the munugors I of eastern railways, which will meet here tomorrow- Fifty-five railroads I east of the MLssisslppl will he ropre-F ropre-F sented at the gathering. Tho roads k have furnished their Individual con fb ranees, according to John J ul-r ul-r 1 i er, chairman of the Information bur-L bur-L I r .tii of the e:biern railroads, and have Bj tiled with the labor board all disputss f involving the shop rafts. Mr Walber said that In acting on r i Secretary Hoover's suggestions that L railroad and brotherhood represcnta-B represcnta-B lives confer immediately following ln-f ln-f dividual wage adjustment meetings the S Afcaoclatlon of Railway Executives 7 i adopted a resolution making partlclpa-L partlclpa-L I tlon optional. A canvass Is now being I made of tho roads desirous of being f represented at the conference with the I I orotherhood heads. w I He added the road manager had al-L al-L ready received replies of acceptances 3 I from the brotherhoods of engineers, r ..utiien and firemen, but had not yet k I received word from the conductors. t I oo L Brides on the island of Malekuls Ijln the New Hebrides, have their two r fron tei th taken out, |