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Show Roads Reject Demands. NEW YORK. Feb. LM. Unusual activity activ-ity among the Brotherhoods of Railway Trainmen and Conductors Is anticipated for the next few weeks. It was announced today. During this time It Is fully ex-per ex-per iid a majority of the thirty-two railroads rail-roads oast of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio rivers will reject the second and final demands for higher wages. Grand Master Lee of Ihe trainmen and Grand Master Gnrrelson of the conductors are now receiving the returns from the Baltimore X- Ohio men. and they will come to New York as soon as the vote Is counted. The trainmen and conductors want to hear from as many of the railroads as possible before ordering any strike, and It Is possible that when the grand councils coun-cils of the two orders meet In Cleveland they may be prepared to deal simultaneously simul-taneously with a majority of the roads. |