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"WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Wage increases ranging from 30 to 40 per 

 cent for railroad employees will be asked of the railroad wage commission 

 by the four brotherhoods, it was stated today by one of the brotherhood 

 representatives here. It is declared to be the purpose of the four 

 brotherhoods not to embarrass Director General McAdoo by extrava- 

 gant demands, but to ask increases amounting to approximately 66 per 

 cent of the increased cost of living occasioned by the war. For the con- 

 ductors, Garretson asked a flat rate of $5.20 per hundred miles for the 

 freight conductors and $3.25 per hundred miles for the passenger con- 

 ductors. The present rate for the former is $4.00 to $4.18 and $2.90 for 

 the latter. Next week W. S. Carter, president of the firemen, and War- 

 ren Stone, the engineers' chief, will testify as to the needs of the employees 

 they represent. Mr. Garretson said today that while the executives 

 of the four brotherhoods had organized to act together when the Adam- 

 son bill was before Congress, this time they are acting independently." 



"WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 1917. The fight for the 5-cent loaf of bread 

 will be up to the consumer, and in this they will be reinforced by experts. 

 The administration is on the side of the master bakers, and Hoover 

 officials believe that with wheat selling at $2.20 per bushel, a 16-ounce 

 loaf cannot be made to retail for less than eight cents, but the agricul- 

 tural experts and the consumers' representatives to the wheat price- 

 fixing board agreed to the $2.20 standard only upon the agreement for a 

 5-cent loaf of bread. Henry J. Waters, of Manhattan, Kans., was one 

 of the $2.20 supporters, while James Sullivan, of the American Feder- 

 ation of Labor, and William Doak, of the Trainmen's Brotherhood, ad- 

 vocated a $1.84 standard." 



You will see from above items how unionized labor, while 

 clamoring for ever increasing wages for themselves, had the 

 nerve to take seats on the wheat-pricing commission and 

 try to hammer it down from $3.00, the price it was then, to 

 $1.84. You will also note that they were " reinforced" in 

 their $1.84 demand by " experts" and by the " administra- 

 tion" and "Hoover officials" and the " master bakers," be- 

 cause they wanted a pound loaf for five cents, and would 

 agree to the $2.20 price only on that condition. 



There was not a wheat raiser on that price-making board, 

 nor an elected, authorized and qualified representative of 

 the wheat producers. That is because the wheat growers 



