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Show ENGINEERS TO CALL FOR ASTRIKE VOTE NEW YORK, March, 26 Fifty representatives rep-resentatives of the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers headed by Warren S. Stone, voted here today to submit to a eo called strike vote the question of increase and standardization of wages, as refused by tho eastern railroads. It will require several days to distribute tho ballots. April 10 has boon sot for limiting public here the result. The demands of tho engineers of tho fifty railroads oast or. Chicago, and north of tho .Norfolk. & Western railroad rail-road having oeon refused and ncithor of tho committees of the railroads and tho onginoers indicating any rotreat from their position tho move wns to' submit the whole matter to a referendum referen-dum vote of the engineers involved to determine what policy should bo pursued. pur-sued. There- has been.no talk of a strike and in fact, Grand Cbiof Warren S. Stone of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers said many ttuugs could happen hap-pen before a strike took place. "We arc not talking of a strike" said Chief Stone. "We aro a long way from a strike. Wo believe our demands aro just. If we did not we would not havo made them." |