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Wage Decision Made Next Month. Chicago, June 25.-A decision or ?the demands of railroad employees for wage increases will be made or or before July 20 by the railroad la bor board, Judge, R. M. Barton chairman, said in a statement late today. The award will be retroactiv? to May 1, the statement said. According to W. G. Lee, presiden! of the Brotherhood of Railway Train men and spokesman for union lead ers who gathered here today, the board's declaration would end ali dan ger of a general railroad strike. Mr. Lee said that secret plans had been made by disaffected union ele ments to spread the strike through out the country because of the con tinued delay in announcing the wage ruling. "The men would have to quit at midnight tomorrow night,"' Mr. Lee said. "It was impossible to hold them . longer. Many of my organization have been waiting patiently for near ly a year." The Railroad board's statement de clared that an agreement on method of working out the wage problems had been arrived at and that no time would be lost in reaching a conclu . ?ion. / Lee and other representatives of the organized railroad brotherhoods who met here today to discuss the railroad wage situation, said there was no doubt the men would be sat isfied with the promise of a decision to relieve their impatience, "Was the decision the result of warning of a probable strike brought by you and your associates to the board?" Lee was asked. "You can draw your own conclu sion as to that," he answered. Resolutions reiterating statements of the Chicago Yardmen's associa tion that its members who were the first to start the "vacation walkouts," would not return to work until their full seniority rights were restored were adopted at a mass meeting call ed by the association tonight for the purpose of presenting their side of the case to the public. The resolutions appeal to the press and various civic and commercial or ganizations to urge the interstate commerce commission to restore their seniority rights. Copies will be sent to the Democratic national con vention. John Gr?nau, president of the or ganization*, in his address charged that "ail present labor difficulties in the railroad industry are due to the inefficiency of the old railroad broth erhoods," adding, that "these organi zations have become a monarchy." On Weevil Catchers. Clemson College, July 1.-County Agents and others have written Prof. A. F. Conradi, Entomologist for the Crop Pest Commission, for advice as to the value of boll weevil catchers, and his reply may be summed up in the statement: "None of these con traptions have been found of value in accurately conducted tests." He writes as follows: "Referring , to the Doll weevil catcher, willsay that in principle of construction it resembles a great many of the various contraptions that have been devised by various people from the earliest days of the weevil's entry into the United States. None of these contraptions were found of value in accurately conduc ted experimental tests. "There are a great many factors that make for or against a cotton crop, as every farmer knows. Some of these are controllable, while he greater number are beyond the far mers' control. A great many creep upon a farmer so that he does not recognize them until it is all over and then he says, 'If I had just known that.', "Time and again these factors are favorable and the farmer makes a crop in spite of himself, and then again they are unfavorable and the farmer can not make a crop in spite ofhimself. "Time and again a farmer uses some scheme, may be a boll weevil catcher, a brush, a siquare collector or anything else, and he makes a crop. Had the test been accurately conducted, and all factors guarded by properyl laid checks, he would have discovered that the success of the crop was not at all due to any of his schemes but to weather condi tions and parasitism and good man agement. Frequently such tests are inaccurately made and are made only' in a single season, which a trained experimenter would not at all accept as conclusive." i take this means of notifying the people of Edgefieid that 1 have loca ted in Edgefieid and solicit the pa tronage of the people. I have had seventeen years' practical experience as a practical jeweler and guarantee every piece of work I do. Bring me your watches, clocks and jewelry of all kinds to be repaired. Prices reasonable. G. C. 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