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THE DAY BOOK
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VOL 6, NO. 144 Chicago, Saturday, March 17, 1917 398&3&
RAIL STRIKE TONIGHT
IF DEADLOCK HOLDS
-FACTIONS FIRM
Both Sides in New York Negotiations Refuse Conces
sionsMediators Helpless Schuettler Promises
Heavy Police Guard to Railroads.
New York, March 17. Negotia
tions toward postponing the rail
m strike called for 6 o'clock tonight are
in the air.
Mediators, brotherhood chiefs and
railway managers are pessimistic
over chances for peace.
Employes and employers are
standing pat. Neither side is mak-
Mediators, conferring with both
sides in a last-minute hope for a solu
tion of the trouble were grim-faced
when the conference ended.
A final chance for settlement was
seen in a possible meeting of mediat
ors, brotherhood chiefs and rail man
agers in a three-cornered session late
this afternoon.
But frpmJfcere.viouR -attitude, of'