Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1916 — Text of Wilson’s Note to Arbitration Committees. [ARTICLE]

Text of Wilson’s Note to Arbitration Committees.

New York, August Tumulty tonight gave out the following message* to the chairman of the committee of managers and to the heads of 4Jie four railway brotherhoods: “I have learned with surprise and with keen disappointment that an agreement concerning the setttlement of the matters in controversey'between the railways and their employes has proved impossible. “A general strike on the railways would at any time have a most far reaching and injurious effect on the country. At this time the effect might be disastrous. “I feel I have the right, therefore, to request, as the head of the government, that (before any final decision is arrived at that I may have a pert sonal conference with you here. I shall hold myself ready to meet you at any time you may be able to reach Washington.” Committees representing both sides of the controversey left for Washington at midnight.