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This will probably be only part of the railroads' trouble, for the demands of conductors and trainmen are expected to be followed by wage demands of other railway employees??? especially engineers and firemen. It is estimated that during the last six months these men (conductors, trainmen, engineers, firemen) received wages aggregating $394,000,000. A 12% wage increase would mean an annual drain of $80,000,000 or $90,000,000 on the railroads and restore wages to the highest point they reached in 1920. The conductors, trainmen, engineers, firemen have powerful, well organized unions; if they make demands...