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Show Locomotive Firemen Will Not Quit Machines New York, New Haven & HaTtford Men Will Not Go on a Strike. NEW HAVEN. Conn., Feb. 19.-No strike of the firemen on tho Now York, New Haven & Hartford-railroad will be declared except as tho w'capon of last resort. re-sort. This, In effect, was tho announcement announce-ment made by Second Vice-Grand Master Timothy Shea tonight at tho close of what was practically an all-day session of tho adjustment commltteo of the brotherhood. Tho commltteo was called to discuss tho situation nnd count tho ballots recently cast on tho question of giving tho committee full power to act. According to Mr. Shea, tho ballot was tho largest ever cast on any question by the brotherhood of this system, and It Is overwhelmingly In favor of giving the commltteo full authority to act as It sees lit. Tho figures are not given out. It wm a determined fact that thcro could bo no strike this week. Shea Is Sanguine. Tomorrow Mr. Shea and a sub-commlt-tco of tho adjustment committee will go to New York to resume discussion of the. plan of arbitration now proposed, and before their return tho plan will bo arranged ar-ranged In all Its details. It is expected, and formally laid before tho officers of tho road So sanguine Is Mr. Shea that the plan will provo a solution of tho problem that he thinks the acute stago will havo been passed by tho mid-week nnd the firemen will bo satisfied with what has been agreed upon. In connection with Mr. Shea's statement state-ment It Is pointed out that tho committee commit-tee must move carefully In formulating Its plnn. which has to take Into consideration consid-eration tho Brothorhood of Engineers and tho railroad company, because of "tho great financial Interests" of which Mr. Shea spoke. On the matter of his visit to New York yesterday, Mr. Shea would not say a word. Meeting a Prolonged Ono. The meeting of tho adjustment committee com-mittee today continued until tonight. Some time was devoted to discussion of negotiations and tho grievance committee commit-tee who met the directors last Tuesday made a report. Then the task of counting count-ing the ballots began, and for hours It proceeded. Mr. Shea left thu meeting before It adjourned, but declined to glvo out a formal statement. Ho seemed to be more buoyant In spirit, however, than at any time since the Unal negotiations have been on foot. Members of the committee com-mittee repelled any attempts to secure interviews. in-terviews. Few Favored a Strike. Many firemen camo hero today because of a report that a mass meeting wns to be held to pass upon tho tmcsllou of a strike. This was erroneous. A few of them socmed to favor a strike. A report wns spread that the trainmen were considering con-sidering the matter of a sympathetic strike, but this report wns quickly disposed dis-posed of when It wns found that tho trainmen's meeting In one of the local halls was the regular monthly meeting and had no connection with the llrc- Passengers on trains from New York today 'reported that many of tho locomotives locomo-tives wero carrying threo men and that small bodies of men were being distributed distribut-ed at all tho large stations. |