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Show I EMPLOYES MEET WUHEnM Chicago, March 11. It Is unofficially unofficial-ly announced that tho committee of railroad managers today refused In 1 substance, every concession demanded demand-ed by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers, representing 25,000 men on forty-nine different railroads runnfng through tho west excepting arbitration of the wage question The men had voted an overwhelming overwhelm-ing majority to strike and this vote was laid before the railroad managers committee yesterday by the committee commit-tee representing the m?n. The men are more Insistent than the managers concedr them the right to be repre-fienteuTby repre-fienteuTby a committee of thflr own in the application of the senior rules than they are for a wage advance. ad-vance. An average of 12 1-2 per cent advance Is the final demand of the firemen. hey declare the schedule submitted last November has been modified in the hope that an amicable adjustment could be mado. |