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{ J HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS NEW BRITAIN HERAL HERALD “ADS” MEAN BETTER BUSINESS PRICE THREE CENTS. NEW BRITAIN CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1916.—TWELVE PAGES. ESTABLISHED 1 -SERBS ROUTED IN " MACEDONIA FIGHT .+ Make Eighteen Unsuc- - cessful Attempts to, Break Through Bul-/ .- garian Right Wing BRITISH CAVALRY IS PUT TO FLIGHT Greek Fort of Startila Taken After Commander and Entire Garrison Is Put to Death.—Allied Offensive in | Balkans Has Yet to Bear Fruit— Decisive Battle Remains to Be Fought. Sofia, Aug., 26, via Landon.—After severe fighting on the Bulgarian right | wing, on the Macedonian front, the Serbians have been defeated with | beavy losses and compelled to retire, the war office announced today, h- teen consecutive attacks were made by the Serbians. On the eastern end of the front Fulgarian forces have reached the Greek Aegean coast and put British | , cavalry detachments to flight. Severa] v:llages have been occupied by the Bulgarians. The statement follows: “‘Our offensive on our right wing (on the western end of the front) continued. In the region of Moglenica Mountain considerable Serbian forces of the Schumadie division, supported by neighboring troops from the night of August 21 until the afternoan of Aug. 23 attempted eighteen consecu- tive attacks against our advanced posi-~ tions in the section of Kurkuruz and Kovel. All their attacks were re- pulsed, whereupon the Serbians re- tired to their former positions. Their losses were immense. “Our left wing, advancing upon the Aegean coast, met weak British caval- Ty detachments, which took flight in the direction of Goge and Orfano, pursued by our troops.” Greek Fort Taken. Paris, Aug. 26, 4:15 a, m.—The + Bulgarians have attacked and cap- tured the Greek Fort of Startila, after killing its commander, Changas, and -, the entire garrison, which offered spirited resistance, says a Salonikf despatch to the Matin. The despatch is dated Aug. 23, and was delayed. Turco-British Clash. Constantinople, Aug. 26, via London, 2:25 p. m.—British and Turkish rec- onnoitering parties have clashed at a point less than twenty miles east of the Suez canal, In the coast region, FRENCH BRUTALITY ALLEGED BY BERLIN Germans Claim Men Captured in the Trenches Are Slain by Special Murder Corps. Berlin, Aug. 26, Wireless ville—The charge that the French have an organized force whose duty it is to exterminate all Germans found in captured trenches is made in an Overseas News Agency statement to- day, as follows “The French some time ago intro- duced » new fighting system, the most cowardly and flagrant violation of the laws of war developed up to this time. Coincident reports confirm the fact, not known until now, that within companies, special detachments have been formed with express orders to remain behind in captured trenches and exterminate all Gerinans yet alive. Theso troopers are called ‘Netto- yeurs' (cleaners or sweepers.) Their equipment is not the rifle, cartridges or bayonet of other soldiers, but the revolver, knife and hand grenade. “When the French storming column succeeds in crossing a trench, the ‘nettoyeurs’ enter the trench and start the work of clearing the trenches of 21l the living. Hand grenades are threwn in the dugouts where there are often wounded men. Those who escape from the hand grenades are Kkilled by revolver and knife when they attempt to come out. This terrible slaughter is continued from man to man. Every man, whether wounded or not, whether armed or not, is mer- cilessly stabbed or shot.” GREEKS RAP BULGARS Invaders to Say- Denounced and Venizelos Cheered at Popular Demonstration During Which “Marseillaise” Sung, Saloniki, Aug, 26, via Paris, 5 ©. m.—A laarge popular meeting was Leld here last night to protest against the occupation of Greek territory by Bulgarians. It was followed by a demonstration for Venizelos and the «inging of the national hymn. The crowd then marched to the head- quarters of General Sarrail, the en- tente commander, and sang the ‘“Mar- seillaise”. A formal protest rinst the Bulgarian occupation was drawn up and left with the prefect of police. Despatches fram Athens y the government is much concerned about the liberal party manifestation which is being organized for Sunday and threatens to hold counter demonstra- tions of supporters of the king. ENGLISH AUXILIARY SUNK Three Men Lost When Naval Ship Is is the British detachments being forced to flee, according to today's announce- ment by the war office. Hard fighting on the Caucasus front, in which dur- ing one engagement the Russians were forced to retreat, also is reported in the statement, Concerning Greck Measures. Athens, Aug. 26, via Paris, 4:20 a. m.—The present political and mili- tary situation, says the Patris, has resulted in an exchange of views among the entente powers regarding the attitude to taken towards Greece. It Is questioned by entente Alplomatists, the newspaper states, ,Whether the measures agreed to by Greece in response to the demands of the allies, including demobilization of the army and a government offering all necessary guarantee for benevolent neutrality are now sufficient in view of the new situation. Russians Advance In Gallcia. Petrograd, Auz. 26, via London, 2:45 p. m.—In the foothills of the Carpathians, in Galicia, the Russians have pressed back the Austrians and made considerable advances, occupy- ing a village, it was announced offi- clally today. “In the Cartathians west of Nad- vorna,” the statement says: “Our ad- vanced guards, having dispersed the €nemy, occu d the village of Cuta vand reached the sources of the Rivers Bystritz and Bystritza-Nadvorna, in the region of Rafalov.” Russians Press Turks Hard. Petrograd, Aug. 26, via London, 2:46 p. m.—The Russians are pressing the advantage recently gained over the Turks in southern Turkish Armenia. The official staternent regarding the | operations of the Caucasus army says: | “On the line extending from the | town of Kygl to Lake Van, stubborn | fighting continues. Our troops, after Baving occupled the town of Mush, advanced to the ridge of Kurst Dagu, where we captured a number of pris »oners. “In the direction of Mosul we con- | tinue to pursue the remnants of the Fourth Turkish division.” Czar’s Troops at Saloniki. Petrograd, Aug. 26, via London, 2:46 p. m.—Official announcement of the arrival of Russian troops at Sal- oniki was made by the war office to- as follows: Destroyed by Torpedo in the North Sea, London, Aug. 26, 2:35 p. m.—The torpedoing in the North sea of a Brit- ish naval auxiliary, with the loss of twenty-three men, was announced of- ficially today. Eighty-seven men were saved. announcement follow; “The British armed steamer Duke of Albany doed and sunk in the orth sea on Thursday by an enemy submarine. The commander and twenty-two men were lost. Eleven officers and seventy- six ratings were saved.” The British merchant steamer Duke of Albany, which probably is the craft alluded to in the officlal statement, was a vessel of 1,997 tons gross, bulit in 1907 and owned in Glasgow. BRITISH RAID NAMUR Dash Over Belgium and Drop Bombs Ma-~ The boarding was torpe- on German Hangars—One chine Fails to Report at Base. London, Aug. 26, 11:56 a. m.— British aeroplanes have made another dash over Belgium, on this occasion penetrating to the vicinity of Namur, thirty-six miles southeast of Brusscls and bombarding German airship sheds. One aeroplane is missing. An official account of these operations was issued here today, as follow: “Harly Friday morning an attack was carried out by naval aeroplanes upon enemy airship sheds near N: mur. The sheds were suc fully bombarded and two of them were hit, but due to low lying clouds it was not possible to observe the amount of damage done. One of our machines failed to return.” TION FOR COBB, Boston, Aug. 26.—Ty Cobb, crack outfielder of the Detrolt American League club, will undergo an operation after the close of the baseball season for the removal of his tonslils, he said today. Cobb said he attributed sev- PS weakening colds which have troubled him lately to bad tonsils. OPER T ON BAIL. Bridgeport, Aug. 2 P. F. Duffy, an official of the International Molders Union of North America, who for the past five days has been detained at the Atlantic Hotel in the custody of DUFFY OU “Russian troops have arrived at £al- (Continued on Ninth Page.) three keepers,, was today released under bond of $10,000, GERMAN INFANTRY UNABLE T0 RUSH FRENGH ON SOMME Charge Foll(;v;s Intense Bombard- ment by Artillery But Ad- vance Is Checked BRITISH CLAIN 400 YARD GAIN NEAR MOQUET FARM ‘Worcestershire and Wiltshire Regi- ments Hold Off Prussian Guard ‘When Assault Is Made Near Thieval —Berlin Reports Attacks in Same Section Were Repulsed—Prisoners Taken from French Trenches, Paris, Aug. 26, noon.—After an in- tense bombardment last night, the Germans launched an infantry attack west of hure, in the Chamr They penetrated the French pe the war oflice announced | subsequently were expelled | German attacks on the Somme and | i ne. ition today, but Verdun fronts were repulsed. The German attack on front was made at Hill 121, near the town of Maurepas, recently captured by the French. On the Verdun front east of Meuse the Germans attacked French line between Fleury and Thiaumont, after a heavy bombard- ment, but were able to make no ad- vance. Aerial engagements occured all along the front. Three German aero- planes were shot down in the Somme sector, one near Craon, and another on the Verdun front. Six others were damaged, and two German captive ballons were destroyed. The an- nouncement follow: “On the Somme front the artiller fighting was violent at the end of the | day, and during part of last night. | South of the Maurepas at about 10 | pP. m, strong enemy reconnoitering parties in the vicinity of Hill 121 dispersed by our f The Germans made no other attempt to attack “In the Champagne, after an intense bombardment, the enemy at about 9:80 o'clock attacked our positions west of Tahure at two different points. The attack was held up by our curtain of except in a small salient ir where the sucecedad f afterw a counter “On the right (Verdun front,) the enemy violently bombarded the region of Thiaumont | and Fleury, and he several times car- ried out lively offensive actions against the village and the trenches borderin on Thiaumont work. None of th attempts ssucceeded reaching our line. “In Lorraine we caught under our fire a German reconnoitering party before Neuvillers, northwest of Badon- villers. “On the remainder night was calm.” the Somme the the | were fire li W attack our enemy in ing him with hand grenades. bank of th wort- wrds drove out by Meuse | in of the front the | sain 400 Yards. 26, 4:12 p. Br London, Aug. heavy attack made by the Guard against British position Thiepval, on the Somme front, was re- | pulsed by the Worcestershire and | Wiltshire regiments it was officially announced this afternoon Near Moquet Farm the British made a gain of 400 yards German trenches celette-Thiepval h A Prussian | at along the (‘nur-‘ road were captured. | | | British Repulsed. Serlin, Aug via London, 4:25 | p. m.—Attacks last night by the Brit- ish in the Thicpval and Fourcaux ‘Wood sector on the Somme front and | 1 by the IFrench near Maurepas were repulsed, the war office announced | today. ‘ in the Champagne, Tahure, French trenche ed and forty-six pr northwest of were raid- captured. soners BATILE WITH SHEARS Knives and Blackjacks Also Used in Free-for-All Em- Factor, i Pight Between ployes in Garment Four men women ilenry manu- Baltimore, Aus. were dangerously fainted and the Sonneborn company, facturer dows on hundred knlves and other ninth Sa 26 wounded, force of clothing here, jumped from the win- the first tloor, when several cmployes, armed with shears, fought each from the kjacks down the stairway tloor el 12 tein, eritical today Punmplan, of 1 condition at and Willlam iMimore, are the | wounds i started when 300 em- | with the I‘ederation of Labor that four cutters in their department, who are members of the Amalgamated Garment Workers of the World, be discharged or moved from tment. officials of the vefused demands The u both hospital | from stah The troubl aflilinted demanded ployes S The their be that compa depa and strict were | was given Police T every ¢ strike 1al the fight followed were summoned from in the city and twelve arrests » made. A | Brotherhoods, | ously pay | nish transpor | ple | less | than | have | hanas POPEMISTPY 'R. R. SITUATION STILL AT IN END, IS VIEW OF PRES. ELLIOTT Head of “New Haven” Points Out Poor Gondition of Rail- road Companies SAYS ALL MUST CO-OPERATE IR U. . IS T0 LEAD WORLD Investors Turn from Transportation Stocks, He Says—Banks, Insurance Companics and Thousands of lndi.] viduals Interested in Financial Suc- | Railroads—Companies Not | De- cess of in Shape to Grant Employes' | | mand | Herald.) | Aug. 26.—Pres- dent of the York, New Haven, and Hartford Rail- | (Special to the Washington, D. C., Howard [Elliott, New | road company, and chairman is here at- railroad bhoard of directors, who tending the conference of presidents in the effort to arrive at a the | Railroad | ued i of de- Four” atisfactory the adjustment Big in mands of a statement today said. as well as officially, I belicved and I still believé that of such great importance “Personally have a question as the eight-hour one should be set- tled only after all its aspects have been carefully considered by a tribun- al free from prejudice and partisan- ship. The 100,000,000 of our people can have, of course, the kind of laws, working hours, and railroads they de- | ire. If they want growing and efficient railroads and believe they can have thera on the basis of an day they must be higher rates for transporta- in that event the develop- ment df the railroad system of our country will be checked. With a cline in our railroad development all tion and other industrial as well as agricultural ! growth will be checked. the true patriotic policy for the fare the whole country at this s for cevery man do all he srowth rather than to reduce 1ts output. behind other md we To my mind wel tim to or to can dvante it chic far W arc countries in have a great task before us in the next ten years to keep our proper place in the world. T hope, therefore, very much that in the in- terest of all our 100,000,000 people some solution of the present situation may be found rather than it should be settled off-hand and solely in the in- terest of the 400,000 who are now pressing their demands. “All thinking people agree that the United States should have good rail- ays, well equipped with sufficient facilities to do the total business of the great population with safety and despatch. Nearly all agree that the railways | should increase their capacity to fur- ition as fast as the pop- ses, if not faster. “In other words, It is to the inter- | est of the public that the railways | be ‘ready to serve’ at all times and | able in times of emergency to carry the ‘peak load.’ This is not the case | today, and the fact that it is not is | a serious menace to the present and | future welfare of the United States, | “Today there are 100,000,000 peo- | in the land who must be clothed, sheltered, kept warm, of them many ulation incre: is of the | eight-hour | willing to continu- | de- | We | | cases and twenty-two deaths. ITALIANS 0CCUPY SPY PEAK | REV. JOS. ZEBRIS LEFT SMALL ESTATE Murdered Priest Had $1,350 Cash and Land Valued at 100—Stock Holdings Worthless. John Skritulsky and G. Tutlis have filed the their inventory of the estate of | The de- praiser in pr court the late Rev. Joseph Zebri ca $6,365.98, at consisting of property, real and personal, and cash in the bank. Attorney P. F. McDonough is executor of tae estate. Cash, on deposit in several together with sixty-four cents on hand, mounts to $1,350.¢ In addition fo this there is a piece of land in Wa terbury, on the iddlebury road, which is valued at $5,000. The watch | and other personal effects are valued lat $15. There are seventeen shares of stock recorded which are accounted valuele: The filing of the appraisal brings to mind the brutal murder of the priest nd his housekeeper, Eva Gilmainatis, which took place a vear and a half | ago. The two murderers, following a spectacular chase, were captured, tried and executed, one for killing a police- man in Wilmington, Del, and the other for murdering the priest and his housekeeper. c priest left an estate valued i banks, N ELEVEN NEW CASES Patients Number of Paralysis in State Since Epidemic Broke Out Is | i Placed at 419. | | a Hartford, Aug. 2 After deducting | number of suspected cases which have not developed positive symptons of the | today at the office of the state board | of health that the number of cases of disease the report was made infantile paralysis in the state was 419, This number includes eleven reported today, one each from Canton, Killing- | 1y, Bridgeport, New Haven and Wind- { sor Locks: two from Colchester and four from Greenwich, | | Stamford, Aug. 26.—By | the illness of one of thei a Miss Potter, twenty-two girls be- onging to the Sound Beach Camp 1 association, encamped at Turn-of-the- three miles above here, have | been quarantined. Miss Potter was | taken home and her house is also | quarantined. The illness has some of | ene symptons of infantlie paralysis. | The girls will remain in camp for a | fortnight under the care of Mrs. L. W. reason of number, re ( River, | gregational church of Sound Beach. Aug. 26.—The of infantile decrease. During the hours ended at 10 a. m. were only ninety-onc New York, of new cases continues to | twenty-four | today there paralysis Dr. Charles E. Banks of the United States health ser today predict- ed that from now there will be marked decreases the number of and deaths. ice, on in cases, From Mount Kalarat, Quasi-Greek, They Are Able to Watch Albanian Ceoast and Alleged U-Boat Base. Paris, Friday, Aug. 25, 11:30 p. m.— A despatch from Avlona tonight states travel for health, and busin The railway are in many places overtaxed in doing | this work. | “Whatever the reasons for the pres- | ent condition of the railways, two facts stand out prominently in the | history of the railways of the United | States for the year 1915. One is that | mileage built in that year | in any since 1864. There only three years since | when there was a smaller mile- | age of new railway construction than in 1915. The other fact has to do with the amount of railway in the hands of receivers With only one exception, the mile: entered into larger than i a panic There was total mil « 11,988 in the hands of receivers Ir 191 the total capitalization of was 64,000,000, In that 20,143 mile road went the hands of rece had a total 508,625, miles was vear been 1848 Il mileage | 191 . was the last in 1 3 receive 3 was ve nd vear, | a ot | vear | into | ers and these roads capitalization of $1,07( "his compares with 4, n, 1914 with a total capitali- of $199.571,446 in receivers | This healthy is ar that 1lone of zation hands is not a ady con- | dition; it affects di- (Continued on Ninth Page.) WEATHER. Hartford, Aug. Hartford and vicinity tled tenight and probably Sun- day. { French that the Italians have accupied Porto Palcrmo and the summit of Mount Kalarat, in southern Albania, in order to watch the Albanian coast north of Cape Kephali, fifty miles southes Avlona, in which district the to be an Austrian submarine The tcrritory occupied by the Ital- ians is quasi-Greek. The opinion of | make | dence that | of the count | Judge Putnam Dex | Barney, wife of the pastor of the Con- | SOUICes, says a wircless despatch number Rome new: however, is that Greece will not protest the occupation. NEW “WHITE SLAVE” ANGLE District Attorney Swain Investigating Fvidence That Manufacturers Fur- nish Women to Attract Buyers. New York, Aug. 26.—District Attor- ney Swann announced today that he had assigned one of his assistants to special investigation of evi- manufacturers here are women to attract buyers New York from all parts Mr. Swann said that he had unearthed enot facts to convince him that men induce women to meet buyers may indict- cd as white slaver The district attorney’s attention was called to this allezed practice among certain manufacturers by the formal complaint made by one business man against another charging him with having enticed the complainant's wife into an evil life. B, AND I, HEARING on August 29 a empioying to come to who be os to Hear Arguments ¥From Both Sides in Receivership Petition. 26.—The Boston and ancial difliculties Boston, Aug Maine railroad’s f will be taken up in the United States district court here on August 29, Judge William L. Putnam having sent word today from his summer home at Mt. Kineo, Me., that he had issued an order or notice returnable on that date for a hearing in connection with equity proceedings looking to receiver- ship for the road. It understood the hearing embrace all pending proceedings in the case. To date, these include a creditor’s petition for a receiver filed by the Intercontinental Rubber com- pany of New Jersey, a noteholder; a similar pl by Edward F. Searles of | New York, who owns bonds of the company, and a petition in opposi- tion filed by Francis V. Streeter of Medford, a minority stockholder. Tt was considered probable also that counsel for the Concord and Mc and Connecticut River which are under lease to the and Maine, would enter appears the case. SLAP FOR KAISER Declines i will King Ferdinand of Rumania To Reccive Special Envoy Through Other Than Regular Channels, ug. 5:20 a. m.—Accord- information from diplomatic ing to rom Berne, Emperor William of Germany wrote to King Ferdinand of Rumania that he intended to send Duke Al- brecht of Mecklenburg on a special an to him with regard to tion of Rumania King Ferdinand replied, despatch, that the mission inopportune because, constitu- tional monarch, he would be obliged miss po: the he adds would as a DEADLOCK; MEN RESTLES Employers Refuse Concede Fight Ho Day Without Arbit tion but Offer Sof Concessions MAY PASS THE ISSU BACK TO “BIG FO Leaders of Employes Exp Difficulty in Restrai Them After Tonight—J ecutives Work All T Preparing Statement President Wilson. Washington, Aug The thr, ened railway strike situation tool added tensity today as the rallway] ecutives continued their deliberat over the form of their counter posal to President Wilson’s plan the brotherhood leaders awaited next move, The executiv men’s leade ave been told tha expect difficulty in straining them after tonight. presidents worked steadily all md ing and the fore part of the after: carefully preparing their statemeh] President Wilson, but shortly noon had taken no final vote on As has been outlined unofficiall; declines to concede the eight hour without arbitration and investigal of its application to railroading, me concessions as to ©0 kes some eral issues The effect of the executives’ cou proposal will be to pass the issue to the brotherhoods, and the out] is variously described by those touch with 'the negotiations. Some of the railway executives their proposition is aositively last; some of the men's leaders si firmly against arbitration. Others both have hopes that out will come further negotiations ing a strike and possibly avertin® A statement issued by the fe board of mediation today on the ! tlements it had conducted s ! garded significant. It describe| report about to he made to the sén| which will disclose that in every d of settlements conducted under old Erdman act, or the later Newla law, substantial advantages h on by the emploves thre tration The only Instance where the men did not benefit settlement made without the | pation of the fedcial mediators. President Wilsor rds the sit as serious, but has not given hope of a settlement. He will o tinue to use every effort to bring b sides o as i i | | al on W part tion rt to refer the envoy to his ministers and in the circumstances he preferred that any communication from the German government hould be recefved through ardinary diplomatic channels RUMANIA BOOSTS ARMY CREDIT, ‘Yriples Sum First Considered and Ap- points Officers of War, Amsterdam, Au via London V. m.—By decrce of the Ru manian council of ministers, published in the Monitor, the extraordinary credit for the army is increased by 200,000,000 francs to 600,000,000 francs, according to a telegram from Bucharest today. The Universul announces that askivesco has hcen appointed tor of munitians, adds the des- patch, and that Gen. Popovie, in- spector general of c: v, has been appointed to command the first army corps in succession to Gen. Averesco, Gen di- 'GIANT HOWITZERS PLANNED FOR USE BY UNITED STATES ARMY Washington, At 26.—Army ord- experts at work on des ticld larger than the German 42 centimeter Belgian nance are for huge howitzers, as large guns which wrecked and forts carly In the war. They will be at least 16-inch calibre with a of 12 to 15 miles, hurling a pro- and range than a ton of jectile weighing more arrying a huge amount high ex- plosive. In addition to these mammoth coast line for mobile naval attack, army considering the creation regiment, equipped with howitzers, to work as a unit of the mobile army. The problem confront- ing the des in that regard is 1o distribute the enormous weight of the gun and e in such a way -hat placing several of weapons along tl defense agair officials are now of a special six ot the igners e e o e Ny it can be moved over any good road. That difficulty is a determining fac- in American heavy artillery de- signs. About a few of the larses: | citles well ballasted roads which support the weight the be found but even such a way as the Boston Post Road, Boston to New York, it is said many sections so lightly built that the great weight would crush through For those red it is plannea t build the new howltzers primarily fc transportation by rail on specia . The regiment would not be attached to any army corps, as in the case with lghter artillery but would be directly under the orders of the eneral staff, to be sent to n point where it was de- sired to blast a way through an en- emy's field works. It is believed pos- sible, however, that the weight can be so distributed on several carriages drawn by motar tractors that it could be dragged over any fairly well bal lasted highway. tor of huge guns igh from | sons| is o r sides together. Secretary Lane, form a mem) of the inter<tate commerce com sion, has kept in close touch with negotiations and conferred today tho president Crisis lmminent, A crisis appeared imminent tod when a counter proposal involving bitration was prepared by the railrg presidents for final submission President Wilson. On the acceptal ity by the railway brotherhoods' ¢ mittee of 640 depends 1 v whet the president’s personal efforts to.m diate shall fail. Heretofore the bral erhood leaders have stood firs against any plan to arbitrate their mana for eight hour day as a bi determining wages. The railroad executives met el today to perfect the draft of th proposal, and were expected to it immediately to President Wil who had an engagement with brotherhood leaders about noon. The railroad presidents contend. arbitration on the ground that eight hour basic day, sought by # brotherhoods is actually a question wages rather than of working hos and consequently is properly subj to arbitration. Further, they arbitrating board interstate commerce some other finds wage ed. the fective in propose that if which might b §f commissiof public hody to be creats inere should be grai order would b from the nd a fund railroad The make nor pending partial Rejection of Wilson This answer of the railroad exec tives would amount to partial reje tion of President Wilson's compromi plan, whereby the railroads were concede the eight hour day and other questions in dispute were to arbitrated. Some members of brotherhood committee, although s hostile to arbitrating the eight ha demand, were sald to favor taking tH railroads proposal under advisen and continuing negotiations next weel Brotherhood leaders had recely (Continued on Ninth Page considered tration stablish sucl employves wo further investigation. Plan, time d to ir wo o gins by the payments. bound not to strike ure ha 1a to deman t

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