eluding excess mileage or arbitrary
differentials that are higher, or any
rules or conditions of employment
contained in individual schedules in
effect Jan. 1, 1916, that are more fa
vorable to the employes shall not be
modified or affected-by any settle
ment reached in connection with
these proposals. The general com
mittee representing the employes on
each railroad will determine which is
preferable and advise the officers in
their company. ' Nothing in the set
tlement that may be reached on the
above submitted articles is to be
construed to deprive the employes on
any railroad from retaining their
present rules and accepting any
rates that may be agreed upon or re
taining their present rates and ac
cepting any rules that may be agreed
upon.
If the transportation of the United
States goes all to smash and the
country is tied up with a nation-wide
rail strike this year it will all be on
account of the railroad companies
refusing to meet these demands.
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100 MEN STRIKE AT NATIONAL
BISCUIT COMPANY PLANT
One hundred men employed by the
National Biscuit Co. at Washington
blvd. and Morgan st are today on
strike. The remaining 900 workers,
many girls, are being urged to walk
out
The workers struck because of low
wages which the N. B. C. pays. This
firm, which has practically a monop
oly on the cracker and sweet biscuit
making in this country, pays its Chi
cago workers such low wages as:
Laborers, $7' to $10 a week; pillars,
$12 and $14 a week; rollers, $15 and
$16, and girls, $6 and $7 a week. The
workers ask an increase of $3 a week
for the men and $2 a week for the
women.
A strike is on at the New York fac
tory of the National Biscuit Co. In
past strikes it has not been the policy
of the company to employ strike
breakers. It has so many different
plants scattered over the country
that when a strike occurred at one it
would simply close it and have the
work done at the other factories.
This meant certain starvation for the
single strike.
The strikers have been organized
by the L W. W.
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WILSON DETERMINED TO END
SUBMARINE ATTACKS
Washington, March 30. Any ex
pectation that the administration
would recede from its determination
to break off diplomatic relations with
Germany, if it is proved German sub
marine attacked Sussex, was re
moved, it was intimated today, by
news of attack on steamer Eagle
Point. Only prompt and complete
Settlement of the whole submarine
issue can prevent threatened rup
ture and there are officials who be
lieve such a settlement more likely
after relations have been broken off
than before.
Sinking of the unarmed Eagle
Point, with one American aboard,
simply adds to proof that general un-der-water
campaign, in defiance of
international law, has been under
taken, officials believe. If this is so,
it must end and end guickly if the
U. S. is to continue to deal with Ger
many. London, March 30. Sworn state
ments concerning reported attacks
on four vessels aboard which were
Americans are now enroute to Wash
ington. British steamer Eagle Point,
reported torpedoed without warning,
entered German-American contro
versy through fact that Jos. Gleeson
of Boston was member of her crew.
Other ships were the Englishman,
Sussex and Manchester Engineer.
Berlin, March 30. Submarine
"crisis" in German reichstag has
completely passed with victory for
Chancellor Von Bethmann-Hollweg,
who urged conciliatory policy toward
neutrals.
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