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Show CONDUCTORS WILL ASK FOR INCREASE Men on Forty Eastern Roads to Present Pre-sent Demands at an Early Date; Strike Threatened. DETROIT, Alay 14. "Conductors on forty-eight eastern railroads will present their demands for an Increase In wages of from 15 to 20 per cent July 1, and If the roads refuse to arbitrate a strike will be ordered within tho fortnight following," fol-lowing," said F. S. Thomns. general chairman of the Eastern Association of Conductors, today. Tie Is here attending tho biennial convention of the Order of Railway Conductors. Both Air. Thomas and A. T3. Garretson, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, Insisted that it had been agreed that no action on the matter had been taken at this mooting moot-ing or at tho convention of -trainmen In San Francisco Alay 0. "About the middle of June a vote will be taken among the membership," said Air. Thomas, "and we pxpoct It will bo ovorwholmlngly In favor of a strike. Then on July 1 wo will go before the railroads with our demands. All we ask Is arbitration. Tho other two associations, associa-tions, the western and the southern, now havo In operation tho wage rate which wo nre seeking." |