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Chicuqo Livestock

CHICAGO Sept % hPl Omitted States
Department of Agriculture -Salable hogs,
5000; total $1,000; slow; mostly lo-s5
bulk good and choice 2OO-27O pounds,
.35-3o; top, 7.55. sparingly 27O-3O0-
pound butchers. T.l0-50: 3OO-36O pounds
$50 ID; most 160lS0-pound averages.
6.15-I 35; packing sows. 25-4O lower; good
ana choice S70-33O pounds, 635-15; $780,
900 pounds mostly 5.s5-6.40.
Salable cattle. 5000: salable calves,
1000, very slow trade generally: even
light light yearlings and light steers re-
Gently active now dull and weak to 25
lower: medium weight and veighty bullocks
getting 25 or more under Wednesday, S
close, or so lower than Tuesdays; prac-
tically no heavy Sold several loads year.
linss and light steers. 10.25-S5: best heif-
ers, 1890: load strictly prime weiehty
steers held above 125: otherwise mostly
1880 downward; all other classes drassy;
Gamer and cutter cows scarce but weak:
beef cows :10-15 lower; bulls weak. with
7.40 practical top on sausage offerings;
vealers. SOL 90 under weeks high time
mainly l 90 down. with close short: very
few selects. 11.50; stockers and feeders
very draggy.
salable sheep. 10000; total, 10000:
spring lambs steady to weak; spots, Is
and Western spring lambs. 1000: bulk
natives. 9.75 down; native slaughter ewes,
3.O0-4.25.
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Chicago Produce

CHICAGO. Sept. % dP.-Poultry. live
32 trucks, firmer; hens An pounds up
l5l2: Leehorn springs. l3; springs, 4
pounds up. White Rock. 14E2: under 4
pounds Plymouth Rock is. Turkeys
toms. l6; hens. Il: other prices unchanged
changed
Eggs 4,579: steady; prices unchanged
Potatoes, 1la: on track 3S2; total U. S
shipments, 541 Russet Burbanks. best
steady demand: fair quality. slightly weak
er, demand slow; Northern stock all va.
rietles, slightly weaker. dsmand fair, sup.
plies liberal; sacket per cwt., Idaho. RIs.
set Burbanks U s. No /. washed ] As
81, according to quality and size: Colorado
Red McClures, S NJ l. unwashed 90
North Dakota, Red River Valley section
Cooblers. U S. No. |. 1.2O-25; mostly l 20:
50 to 90 per cent U. S. No /. LOGO,
early Ohlos. IS per cent U. S. No. /. 1.ln;
Bliss Triumphs 90 per cent or better U S
No l. few sales, 22ia25: Wisconsin
CoooleTs, y s. No; / small to. medium
ID: Katahdins U. s No. /, few sales
.35-4O.
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New York Produce

NEW YORK. Sept. % OP,-Eggs. 13. .633:
steady. Mixed colors: Fancy to extra
fancy. 2:E-27; standards. 22; frsts 10;
seconds. I7-1S: mediums 15a4-16; dirtiks,
No: !. 14a4-15A average checks, 13A-34
Refrigerator. fancy heavyweights, 1922;
standards. 1712; firSs, II; seconds. 49,
l6la: mediums, l512S dirties, 14s4-l5
Whites; Resale Of premium marks. 81 12-
"a; nearby and Midwestern. premium
marks. 2SIa-31: exchange specials 2S: ex-
change standards, "a. Resale of nearby
heavier mediums 2lh-26. Nearby and
Midwestern. exchange mediums. 2o-2l
pulets 16la-17; peewees. l4ia-15. Re-
frieerator. nearby and Midwestern stand
ards 2@l2-23: flrsts, 20l7-21
Browns: Nearby. extra fancy. oaia-'4
Nearby and Midwestern. exchange specials,
30 exchange standards. 22i2-23 Nearby,
mediums, 20: pullets. 16.
Duck eggs: Nearby. 1926
Butter 1149OS: steady; creamery, higher
than extra. 29H-30: extra (92 score,
2s,4S22; oa frsts tss-sD. 24la-os; seconds
Cheese, l52,2se; quiet. Prices un-
changed
Dressed poultry easy. Fresh and frozen
prices UNCHANGED.
Live poultry. by freisht nominal No
sales Bv express. improved Chickens,
Rocks, 1919; crosses, 17-ls; Reds. IL
1872: Leehorns. 16-l1. Broilers Rocks
1920; crosses, 17-ls: colored 1872 Reds,
1918: Leghorns. 1919 Fowls colored
Ills Leehorns. 14-l5. Old roosters 13
Turkeys, hens 81.
Egg futures easy: REFRIGERATOR firsts. Sep
tember and October. 1890; sales. two cars.
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Supply Of Dry Beans
More Than Ample
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Agriculture Department econo-
mists assured American housewives
yesterday that the supply Of dry
beans-one Of the major staples of
their dinner tables-was more than
ample" to meet the Nations needs.
Prices, they said, should not be
much higher than during the past
year.
j. E. Barr, department economist,
said the supply Of dry beans for the
marketing year which opened Sep
tember l included an indicated crop
of 100000 bags of 100 pounds each
and a record surplus of between
2,5Oo,OO0 and 100000 bags from
previous years.
Thus, supply of between 15,573,-
900 and 16,073,000 bags was in pros
pect to meet a total domestic de-
manufacturing beans used for
seed as we'll as human consumption
of between 100000 and 14,OOO,-
900 bags.
The European war brought a
sharp upswing in prices of beans.
However, prices have reacted in re-
cent days to level which Govern
ment economists believe to be more
In line" with the demand and sup
ply situation.
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Bank C|earings Widen
Margin Above 1888
During Week
Dun & Brudstreet Finds
Volume l2.7 Per Cent
Ahead Of Year Ago
Dy the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Sept. 28.-The vol
time of check transactions in the
latest week, while falling somewhat
below last weeks total, managed to
widen considerably the margin of
increase over the 1888 comparative.
New York City, as we'll as all of the
81 cities outside the financial center,
registered gain over last year in
the amount of bank clearings.
The volume of turnover, according
to Dun g. Bradstreet, was $5, 1893, ,g46,-
600, compared with $4,606 ,664,O00
. year ago. This weeks 1877 per cent
gain over last year marks the tenth
consecutive week of increase over
the corresponding period of 1898.
In comparison with a week ago,
volume was S881,l51 smaller, while
in the similar period of last year
the decrease was $1,380615.
Clearings at New York again de-
clined from the previous weeks level,
showing a drop of ia per cent, but
at total of $1,000 029000 the cur
rent figure was 73 per cent above
the $4,000, 0,4l4,000 for a year ago,
Last week a per cent decline from
the similar 1888 period was recorded,
In the 81 outside cities, the year.
to-year increase in transactions was
the largest since March, 1887. A
total of s2,l89 ,9l7,O00 compared with
$1,8O6, ,25O,0O0 in the corresponding
1888 week, or a gain of PIP per cent.
All of the cities reported increases
over a year ago. The more i'm
portant advances included Boston,
395 per cent; Baltimore, 37.2 per
cent; Cleveland, 306 per cent;
Omaha, 299 per cent; Pittsburgh,
283 per cent, and Detroit, 26.5 per
cent. Comparatively small increases
at Richmond and Atlanta are eX-
planned by the fact that these cities
showed the least amount of decline
at the same period last year.
Bank clearings at leading cities,
together with percentage gains from
a year ago, follow; also the daily
average bank clearings for the
months of July, August and Septem-
ber to date:
Evening star., 1939-09-28
tobacco Committee Plans
Reopening October 10
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DURHAM, N. c., Sept. 28.-The
Sales Committee of the United
States Tobacco Association today set
October 10 for reopening of the east
ern and middle belt markets, closed
more than two weeks ago, and for
opening of old belt markets, which
were not in operation on the date of
the suspension.
A date for reopening of the South
Carolina and border belt markets
was not fixed Immediately, but men,
bers said it would be decided upon
later today.
George Burton of Rocky Mount
issued the following statement after
the meeting:
"Sales will be resumed Tuesday,
October 10. A six-hour selling day
and 360-pile selling limit per hour
regulation will be enforced. Eastern,
middle and old belt markets will
open with full corps of buyers.
South Carolina will have restricted
sales"
Members of the committee said
the reopening was not contingent
upon the outcome Of the crop con-
troll referendum set for october 5.
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Regular.
Dry Goods Market

NEW YORK. Sept. % P,.-Recent en-
couragine demand for heavy cotton goods
and sheetings continued today, according
to reports from Worth street. Sales held
up well despite the fact many mills have
sold most Of their output for the rest Of
the year.
Some finishing firms announced CUSTOM
ers will be informed Of price advances UP
to u cent yard on shirtinE and similar
fancy and speciality items. effective Octo-
ber J.. Commissionmen said this move
might forecast general boosts in finished
products.
Wool goods turnover slowed down as
prices tended to level of after recent sharp
advances.
Supplies in the rayon market became
increasingly tight with many mills with
drawn.
Increased silk hosiery prices have not
appreciably affected business in this di-
vision Trading in silk fabrics however
was at an almost complete standstill
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i. ). Officials Fear
Drought Conditions
In Wheat Belt
Planting Of Winter Crop
Delayed; Pastures
Are Burned
BY the Associated Press.

6y bNS 7esoCldtco TScoo.
Agriculture Department officials
expressed concern yesterday over
severe drought conditions which
have developed in the heart of the
Nations farm belt and have caused
unprecedented delay in seeding the
important winter wheat crop.
Likewise, many livestock farmers,
confronted with burned pastures and
shortage of feed and water sup
plies, are being forced to sacrifice
meat animals unfattened. Milk sup
plies IN some sections have been
curtailed.
N. E. Dodd, director of the Agri-
culture Adjustment Administrations
western division, reported upon his
return from an inspection tour of
the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains
and Pacific Northwest that planting
of winter wheat was farther behind
than ever known"
Wide Area Affected.
A wide area extending from the
central Rocky Mountains eastward
through the Mississippi Valley is af-
fected by four weeks shortage of
moisture. Dodd said conditions were
more acute" than in the autumnal
periods preceding the serious
droughts of 1884 and 1886. Aggra-
waiting the situation have been un-
seasonably high temperatures.
The Weather Bureau, in its weekly
weather and crop bulletin. said stock
water was badly depleted in Ohio,
Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Ken
lucky, Montana and Oklahoma. It
said that in Western Oklahoma the
ground water table was reported to
be the lowest ever known.
Ofi1cials said that unless drenchine
rains were received soon, prospects
for next years grain crop might be
affected. Normally, fall rains have
an important bearing on yields the
following summer.
Points to Surpluses.
Dodd emphasized, however. that
there was no danger of a shortage
in wheat. He said that should the
1910 crop be unusually small, present
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Bituminous Output
Up Further in Week

The National Coal Association,
from incomplete carloading reports
from the railroads, estimates btu
minous coal production in the
United States for the week ended
September % as approximately o.
100000 net tons. Production for the
corresponding week: 1888, 1886, 600
tons: 1887. 100000 tons. Percent
age of change: 1888, increase, 159
per cent; 1887, decrease, "A per cent.
This is the first. week this year in
(which production has exceeded g.
100000 tons. Railroad car shortages
in some sections are holding produc-
ton back this week.
The report of the Bituminous Coal
Division of the Department of the
Interior shows production of 1885,
600 tons for the week ended Sep
tember 9 and 100000 for the week
ended September l6, 1889.
Production calendar year to Sep
tember %: 1899, 252,874,O0O tons
,(subiect to revision; corresponding
period 1888, 227.5o3,OOO tons; in
crease. 11.2 per cent.
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0.99 per cent for the previous period.
The compilation of earnings was
based on reports from 1876 class 1
railroads to the associations Bureau
OF Railway Economics.
Their gross operating revenues for
the first eight months totaled So
48O ,96l ,970. compared with $780,
992 ,l84 for the same period in 1888
and $3,572 ,873,8 for the same pe-
riod in 1880, an increase of 1912 per
cent in 1889 above 1888, but 30.6 per
cent below 1880.
The operating expenses for the Pc
riod this year amounted to $780,
327 1881, as compared with S1,783,-
333, ,872 for 1898.
The lines had a net operating in
come Of $54 $50. .246, or 2.01 per cent
on investment, in August, compared
with $45, 5,421, ,78l, or 1.67 per cent, In
August of 1898.
The gross operating revenues for
August amounted to $344 ,399, ,562. as
compared with $315 1885, Alb the pre-
vious August.
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;urpluses would make up the defi-

surpluses would make up the defi-
cheney.
Likewise, the Nation has large
supplies Of livestock feed crops. The
drought, however, has caused short
ages in many localities In the
drought area. The Weather Bureau
said that much wheat that has been
sown in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas
Colorado and Nebraska, had not YET
terminated. 1t was said that unless
rains came soon to start the grain
growing to provide the soil with a
cover crop, severe dust storms could
be expected this fall and winter.
The bureau also said rain was
badly needed for pastures in prac-
tically all States from the Rocky
Mountains eastward.
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Decision on Tobacco
Sales Due Today
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
DURHAM. N. c.. Sept. 28.-The
Sales Committee of the Tobacco
Association of the United States
will decide at a meeting here today
when leaf sales are to be resumed.
F.. G. Satterfield, Durham ware
houseman, who is a member of the
committee, said last night it was
possible the committee would dis
cuss other matters besides the re-
opening of the markets.
Tobacco circles here anticipated
that the markets, closed since Sep
tember II and 13, would reopen
Monday, october 9.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Factory Shipments
Show Large Gain
During August
Industrial Conference
Board Also Reports
Drop in JobIess
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Sept 28.-The Ma
tional Industrial Conference Board,
operated by private industries, re-
ported yesterday the value of ship
ments of manufacturing industries
in August was IA per cent higher
than in July and 18 per cent higher
than in August, 1888.
Inventories in August, said the
board, were 4 of l per cent smaller
than in July and per cent smaller
than in August, 1898.
New orders were / per cent higher
than in July and 81 per cent higher
than in August, 1898, while untitled
orders were 2 per cent less than
in July, but rs per cent greater than
in the previous August.
The board also reported that I'M
employment in the United States
declined 4.3 per cent in August to the
lowest point since December, 1887.
The number of jobless were esti-
mated at 9,424,OO0, compared with
1852, 900 in July and 10.601 900 in
the corresponding month year ago.
The board stated that total en-
ployment rose almost half million
in August to 45,263,000 the largest
number since November, 1887. The
increase was found to be mainly
due to steady upward trend in all
branches of industrial employment,
which has been under way since
last May. Gains during the month
in agriculture and declines in trade
and service industries were said to
follow the usual seasonal trends.
The Governments emergency
labor force declined from $4,000
in July to 2,169,000 in August, or
1866 per cent. 1t marked the sixth
consecutive monthly drop in the
emergency labor force and brought
the total to the lowest point since
December, 1887.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Foreign Markets

LONDON. Sept % LP-The stock mar
ket took yesterdays budget message call
ing for heavy tax increases in its stride
today efter an early period of uncertainty.
Rails shares continued strong and selected
held their ground. A drop to 8 per cent
in the bank rate. had a .bolstering effect
unconfirmed rumors of an imminent rise ise
in the nrice Of gasoline.
PAR1S.-Bourse prices f1uctuated ir-
regularly today Rentes with one exception
held firm: but Others. including inter-
national shares, followed a ragged course
Kentes closed 20 centimes higher to 175
Evening star., 1939-09-28
New York Sugar

NEW YORK Sept. % R,.-A firmns
with fairly good interest shown at SO
cents a pound and duty-free offerings held
at $40 cents. Cuban offerings continued
withdrawn
y Domestic futures were near standstill
Light selling from Cuban producing inter
ests was taken by trade houses Midafter-
Mrch at 236 and May at 2.41
World futures also were quiet Scat
by locals, Prices got down 21a to ga, with
March at 200
Refined was quiet and UNCHANGED at 5.75
cents
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Rail Income Climbs
Far Above 1888 in
Eight Months
Net at $269, ,349,35e,
Against $155.03S, ,546
In Period Year AGO

by tHe ASSOCIHteu FYeS6.
The Association of American Rail-
roads reported today that class
railroads of the United States in the
first eight months of 1899 mad net
railway operating income of $685.
349, 1856 as compared with $155, ,O38,-
546 for the same period in 1898.
The 1899 income represented a re-
turn OF 1.72 per cent on the prop
erty investment as compared with
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Odd-Lot Dealings
By the Associated Press

6y Cnt HSSUCIdUeu FItSS.
The Securities Commission reported to-
day these transactions by customers with
odd-lot dealers or specialists on the New
York Stock Exchange for September 81:
p,726 purchases. involving 2s5,9s4 shares;
10.Q59 sales involving 276.209 shares, in
Guiding 215 short sales, involving 5,425
shares.
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Date Imports Rise

The Census Bureau says estab-
hshments handling imported dates
shipped $339,506 worth in August
compared with S286,570 in the same
month last year.
Evening star., 1939-09-28

Quotations furnished by National Asso.
ciation OF Securities Dealers Inc. which
transactions or firm bids or offers bui
should indicate approximate prices ano
unless otherwise indicated are as quoted by
the sponsors or issuers
'Not quoted by sponsors or issuers.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Metal Market

NEW YORK, Sept % P-Copper
steady; electrolytic, spot II 90; export. un-
quoted. Tin easy; spot and nearby, 81 90;
forward, 400. Iced steady; spot, New
York, 5.50-55; East St. Louis. 5.35 Zinc
hrm; East st Louis spot and forward
$50. Pig iron, aluminium, antimony quick
silver, platinum and Chinese wolframite
UNCHANGED.
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Continued From Page A-22)
Stock and
Dividend Rate.
Prev. 1899
High. Low,
Washington Exchange
SALES.

SALES.
Washington Railway & Electric pfd.
30 at 109.
AFTER CALL.
Washington Gas Light pfd.-l0 at 80.
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Investing Companies

NEW YORK. Sept IS lP.-National
Association Securities Dealers, Inc:
Moon ouotations)
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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

2:30p.m
Prev. 1889 Stock Sales Net
High Low Dividend Rate Add CO. High chge
"a II Ysstwn Stl DR. .60g rs 33h 80 80 Il
IN II zenith Radio 1g) II 16% II
3N Zonits Products Z 81 81 az ! y
Approximate SoIes Of Stocks on me NJ Y Stock Exchonoe
ll:OO AN 100000 1890 Noon --- 100 900
l:oo I'M ll20.OOO 1900 Pm ---- 100000
sUnit OF tradnR 10
rin 6ankruptcy recevership bsns under
BANKRUPTCY Act or securities assumed such
Rtte, Of dvdend r. the toeegons table
oased or quarterly
noted special extra dividends
xo ~ dvtnerd r b rights Also Paid
aN year Payable In stock paid so far this
ssM Casn Or stock Accumulated dividends
Evening star., 1939-09-28
Federal Lund Banks

NEW YORK, Sept. 90 LP.-Federal Land
Bank bonds
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New York Bunk Stocks

NEW YORK Sept % P,.-National As
ISOLATION Securities Dealers Inc:
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Dividends Announced

NEW YORK. Sept 2s-Dividends de-
clared--prepared by Fitch Publishing Co.:
Extra.
Pc Stk of Pay
Rate. riod. record able
Ohio Wax Paper - 25c - $40 10-1
Special
Dun r G. Bradstreet SOC - S-31 Clio
Accumulated.
FyrFyter Co SOC $50 1O-15
Mich !eo pf $1.75 - 1914 ILL
Do 81 pf $1.50 - 1O-14 Ill
Passed.
Adams Oil g. Gas
Evening star., 1939-09-28
United Stotes Treasury Position
By the Associated Press.
The position of the Treasury

ion of the Treasury September
Septem
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-10-26
Anti-Lubor Laws Hit
BY A. F. L. Convention

Cincinnati, Ohio.-The delegates to
the American Federation of Labor
adopted with enthusiasm the recon-
mendation of the Committee on State
Organizations that all affiliated units
cooperate to prevent the enactment of
reactionary State laws affecting la
Dor.
The subject was brought to the at
tention of the convention by the re-
port of the Executive Council that "a
repetition of the landslide of good
labor laws enacted in 1887 was per-
haps not to be expected in every long
legislative year, but the output of the
Al legislatures that met this year was
meager if not downright reactionary."
To meet this emergency the con-
vention urged "that all organizations
cooperate with the State Federations
Of Labor in their continued effort to
combat all reactionary legislation
having for its object the restriction
of the normal functions of trade
unions, and press for the enactment
Of remedial and protective Legislation
for all wage earners."
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-10-26
TOLEDO CLU PLANS
DRIVE AGAINST CIO

Toledo, o. (OLNS).-Establishmen
of special committee to draft
strategy to be employed in combat
ting tactics Of the CIO here and col
lection of a special assessment to Gre
ate "war chest" for the fight was
announced last week at a specially
called meeting attended by delegates
and officers Of American Federation
of Labor Unions.
Drastic Action was decided upon as
the outgrowth of reports made by To-
cal A. F. Of l.. leaders that the c. l..
O. was using intimidation and violence
in obtaining members and attempting
to hamper organization work of A. F.
Of L. Unions.
Among the A. F. of l.. leaders who
addressed the meeting were Francis J.
Dillon, A. +. of L.. regional representa-
tive, and Oliver Myers, secretary of
the Toledo Building Trades Council.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-10-26
WORKERS EDUCATION
PROGRAM ARRANGED

Columbus, O. (OLNS).-A special
meeting at which amendments to the
old age insurance section of the So
cial Security Act, approved by Con-
gress, has been arranged by the Edu-
cation Committee Of the Columbus
Federation Of Labor for Friday, Octo-
ber q, in the Labor Assembly Hall
at 2471a South High Street.
The meeting is sponsored by the
Federation's committee in cooperation
with Dewitt Huffman, educational di-
rector of the Ohio State Federation
Of Labor, and P. D. Fahnestock, Social
Security Board representative.
In addition, the Committee has COM
pleted arrangements with Ohio State
University faculty members to conduc.
study and lecture periods on subjects
Of interest to labor before each BIZ
monthly meeting Of the Columbus
Federation of Labor.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1939-10-26
WAGE STRIKE CLOSES
MEXICAN LIGHT PLANT

Press dispatches from Mexico City
announced that a strike of electrical
workers against three electric COM
panies with headquarters in Puebla,
Oriza and Cordoba cut off electric
light and power in five Mexican
States. ,.t g..
The dispute arose in connection
with negotiations for a new collective
agreement. The workers demanded q
80 per cent increase in wages, which
was later reduced to 29 per cent and
finally to IA per cent. The officials
of the companies refused to pay more
than Z per cent increase, which the
workers refused to accept.