Show I VOTE BEING COUNTED Result of oj Referendum on Railroads Railroads' Proposal May ay B Be Announced Tomorrow S I In Kansas n as City Sept 23 Ives tives of ot tue six railroad shop unions In conference nce hero spent most of ot today toda In counting the tho referendum vote ote taken September r 0 9 I b by tile the members of oC the he organizations on propositions made b by the twenty western railroads In answer answer an- an to the shop Unions Unions' demands for tor foran foran toran an hour eight-hour day lay and an tin increase of ot S 5 Scents cents an hour In wages A. A O. O Wharton of or St. St J Louis president of ot the railroad employees employees' department of ot the American Federation of Labor acting as os chairman of or the conference asserted that the counter proposals of or ortho tho the railroads average a throughout the tho raise of ot 2 twenty roads affected a nant nt nn hour nn the J Of ot thO the I eight 1 ht hd hour schedule e t to th the emI employed em em- work This embraced embraced embraced em em- In stationary I braced 7 73 71 per cent of tho OOOO men affected he asserted The Tho other 25 5 of ot rollIng rollIng rollIng roll- roll employed In repairing per cent Ing stock auld and work which took thorn them from place to place were denied tho granting of or the elgh hour eight hour day a ac according according ac- ac cording to the chairman n Mr Ir Wharton harton made plain that tho the uros ures he gave ga were on only I an average through the railroads s involved 5 some me he declared acceding to the unions unions' de demands demands de- de mands In the whole while others made only small concessions concession Results of ot the referendum will not b bo available oL before October 1 i. ho sail 4 |