The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-01
RAILROAD WAR BOARD
 HAS BEEN DISSOLVED
Most of the Men Will Return to the Actual Supervision of Their Roads Governments Attitude Toward Wage Changes Will Not Be Deter mined for Several Weeks.

Washington, Dec. 31.-Orders went to eastern railroads today from Di- rector General McAdoo to clear up freight congestion regardless of pre- vious government priority regula- tions, passenger schedules and any hampering practices under the old competitive system and to pay spe- cial attntion to movement of coal and food.
 Lines of the west and south were notified that soon they might be called on to furnish locomotives and other equipment to help tighten the traffic burden in the east, and a committed of government officials was created to work ont a plan for diverting ex- bort freight te posts south of Nee York Priority orders were suspend. cd for roads east of the Mississipp and north of the Ohio rivers to the extent necessary to clear up conges- tion.
 At the same time the director gen eral dissolved the railroad war board at it's own request and named a tenn porarary advisory cabinet of five members. One of these, Hale Holden president of the Burlington. and 2 member of the war board, w'sl be retained to supervise the machinery which the war board has created tc co- ordinate the roads
 Other members of the new advisory board are John Skelton Williams comptroller of the currency. who VII have charge of financial questions arising out of government operation, Henry Walters. chairman of the board of the Atlantic Coast line, who will assist on operation problems; Ed ward Chambers. traffic director of the food administration, who will havC general charge of traffic( and Walter D. Hines, assistant to the director general
 Other railroad heads who made UT the war board. Fairfax Harrison, oi inc Southern; Req, of the Pennsyl- yania; Kruttchnitt. of the Southern Pacific. and Eliot of the New Haven will return to the actual supervision of their roads, but all the sub- com mittees and organization of the board will be turned over to MT Holden vrhn ,.vagtf,,,, ,,f f,, or.og.,J ,,..y Fo, va q road employees will be taken up soor by Mir McAdOo. Heads of the four brotherhods will confer with the di- rector general Thursday, and probably will urge that with the scarity of rail road labor it will be necessary to pay Higher wages to retain the men. Many advisors of the director general ad- vocate increasing wages, aprticularly for many unorganized classes
 The federal hoard of mediation and conciliation will continue to pass or wage disputes now pending. it was announced, but eventually the director probably vii handle wage questions
 directly
 The governments attitude toward wage changes is not expected to bC [ determined for several weeks at least 1 MT McAdoo limited his comments
 on the labor situation today to say | ing that he would treat the men witt
 justice and equity" and would give
 "a just and square hearing" to thu | hrotherhood heads.
 The director general conferred dur ing the day with Secretaries Bakel
 and Daniels, Chairman Hurley of tho shipping board Food Administrator
 Hoover. Fuel Administrator Garfielt
 and other government officials. A. II. Smith, phesident of the New
 York Central, an assistant director
 who has charge of the task of clear ing congestion in the east, tonight or dered eastern lines to start a sys.
 tematic campaign to Imove freight an'
 to report daily to Am the congeste' lconditions, so ts other roads les