For 17 tiresome days proposals for railway wage cuts bumped across a long, white-clothed table in Chicago's Palmer House with counterproposals for increased railway work. On one side of the table sat nine railroad presidents representing the management of 210 carriers, hard-pressed to meet their fixed charges. On the other side of the table sat the chiefs of the 21 standard railroad unions, no less hard-pressed to supply employment for their 1,500,000 members. Scattered about the smoky red-paneled room were some 150 other union representatives who made up the Railway Labor Executives'...
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