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Show SHOPMEN SCALE TOO HIGH, CLAIM CHICAGO. April 7 If every fam--ly of the country lived on a yearly I budget of 2,267.I7, that proposed I bv railroad shnpnieri'q rr-pi-e-. n'.it iv. -. there wouldn't l nough money to go around and the railroad would step Into an annual deficit of ovor' one billiwn dollars, the railroad labor j board was told by officials of the I ir-riers ir-riers today. "The country does npt produce and! never did, for such a budget," de-1 clared J V. Hlgglns. for (he western! roads. The theory advanced of I making wages constant and profits variable, even to the point of extinction extinc-tion Is absurd. There is no ehangel in human nature today no one is going tO Invest In railroads Which I won't show a profit." I'nder the budget, which was Introduced Intro-duced hy M M Jewell ,cr,r ,,f the pshop crafts unions, last week. t..ild! J. G- Walbcr. representing eastern ' lines, tho railroads' labor bill would j.nmount to $4,508,857,682. or one and a half millions of dollars more than it Pn-nt, and 2.7 times net operating operat-ing expenses. i oo |