Show MAI INVOKE HELP FROM CONGRESS PRESIDENT MAY ASK LEGISLA TION ta PREVENT nationwide NATION WIDE STRIKE OF RAILROAD MEN brotherhood committee tired of their long walt Depart for home delegating their powers to committee of twenty four washington Tent tentative stive plans for a joint session of the senate and house to hear president president dept wilson ask for legislation to io prevent thi the e threatened na tion wide railroad strike were vere discussed by the president P n t with senator kern the democratic leader sunday when it ft seemed virtually certain that abream between the railroads all roads and their employees must follow final conferences feren ces at the white house possibilities of legislation were talked over by the president with sen sen ator Ne lowlands chairman of the interstate commerce commission and secretary 1 lane and the president made a quiet trip to the office building to find senator kern attending a meeting of the finance committee the belief that negotiations between the railroad executives and representatives of the men would end without an agreement has been growing this feeling was was strengthened when the member of the brotherhood committee of 40 tired of their long wait departed for home after delegating ther powers to effect a settlement or calla strike to a of twenty four instructed under no circum stances to agree to arbitration of the demand for an eight hour day at the present rate of pay for ten hours whether the plaris plans considered by president wilson and his bis advisers at the capitol will be carried out depends upon developments but it Is understood that it if all efforts fall to bring the employers and their men together the president will go before congress and ask that it deal with the situation even it if that necessitates indefinitely prolonging the present session unless the railroad heads beads recede from their demand tor for arbitration of the eight hour day proposal one brotherhood member said a strike affecting about men will be called within the next ten days |