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Show WIGHT IBS PLIIIIPH Railway and Steamship i Employees Are Taking Vote on Walkout. 1 LOL'lSVILT.i:. Ky Srpt. IS.-Two hundred hun-dred thousand r.tilw ay an-l Ft --a in flit p men. lr.ernbers of itt? Urut Mt.'rh .'! Railway and Sfe.in:s!;ip Freifi ( Hand:!. Kx press and Slat am Jan pi oyecs, ha v.-been v.-been ordered to take a strike vote, it was announced here today by J. J. Forrester of Cmelnnati. president of tl.e brotherhood, brother-hood, to enfree demands made to the railroad adm1nl5trat!"n by ihe brollier-ho,(d brollier-ho,(d Aupu.t IS. Orders have fpne fr.rward to every !ndco tn th rountry. It was said, to take the strike volt'. '1'hre o! tlo- l:vo lodw s in I-i-'insvllle. with a membership of np-prvxiniat np-prvxiniat rly rO'.1, :i)r-ady havo voted, bui the r.'Silt has been withheld. .Mr'tnlie-nf .Mr'tnlie-nf the orpani.atinn on tlio 1'ennsvlv.u.ia rai'road sy.Hfin, It was d"laied, w;ll hot within the next f'.v days. The demands tneludo iay Inorease of at least oents an lunir reiroeatlvo to January. U U' : rn-vstu bli;:hment of e.-r-tn in d i ; ferent ials bet m eon the f reicht iand!ers, etieekers. stevedores nnd other higher rnted employees; two weeks' vacation vaca-tion with pay; time and on1-ha If f.r overtime; Sundays and holidays to bo paid at overtime rates, and a Kuarat;- . ted minimum of ei(,-l't houi'S a day when I calie'l fr duty. |