For nine days in the grand ballroom of Chicago's Palmer House, 1.500 representatives of 21 standard railway unions and a committee of nine managers representing 210 Class 1 U. S. roads stubbornly locked horns over the matter of railroad wages. Time after time the conference was on the brink of rupture.
A 20% reduction of rail employes' wages would pay the railroads' tax bill—nearly a million a day. That was what the managers had come to Chicago hoping to get.
What the Railway Labor Executives' Association would agree to was a continuation for...
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