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Show ASKS RELIEF FROM HIGHJJVING COST MEMORANDUM PRESENTED TO THE PRESIDENT BY DELEGATION DELEGA-TION OF CALLERS. Profiteers Are Charged With Respon-sibility Respon-sibility for Conditions Breeding Unrest, by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Washington. The high cost of living liv-ing and growing unrest among wage-earners wage-earners of America were put directly up to the president in a remarkable way Wednesday by the advisory board of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. En-gineers. They told him that if the government could not take steps to reduce the cost of life's necessities, to make it square with the inceme of the people, they would demand another increase increase in-crease in wages. President Wilson, who characterized a memorandum left by the engineers as an "impressive document," had just finished a conference with Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the Democratic Demo-cratic national committee, who told him the high cost of living was the burning subject of the hour. Julius Barnes, chairman of the government gov-ernment grain corporation, told the president of grain problems and grievances griev-ances of the farmers over recent rulings rul-ings on wheat. Warren S. Stone, president of the brotherhood, presented the memorandum. memoran-dum. He was accompanied by sixteen six-teen members of the executive board. The president, It was reported, listened lis-tened with profound interest, and assured as-sured them that their appeal would be given consideration. No comment was made by the railroad men after they leff. the White house. |