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Show STRIKE VOTE TO BE ANNOUNCED MONDAY XRW YORK, Feb. S. Official announcement an-nouncement that 30,000 fire ni en and en-ginemen en-ginemen employed on iifty-foui.v eastern railroads have voted to strike Thay bo made within forty-eight hours or "less. The committee of managers of those roads will bo iuformod on Tuesday bv W. Carter, president of the Brotherhood Brother-hood of Locomotive Firemen and En-ginemeri, En-ginemeri, of the result of the count that lrs n 0UI" 0,1 for more than a week. Mr. Carter js expected hero tomorrow from Peoria, 111. It is declared by the: railroad officials that tho men 'have voted for a strike under certain contingencies con-tingencies and this has been seiiii-oOh, cially confirmed at firemen's headquarters. headquar-ters. ' The committee of managers will meet on Monday to define their attitude toward to-ward the firemen when representatives of the Brotherhood visit tho roads' rep-resentatives rep-resentatives on Tuesday. It is understood under-stood that the managers will again seek to have the firemen's demands settled by arbitration of a board similar to that which sottlod the engineers' dis-' pnte last year. If, is expected the firemen fire-men will refti8e to consent to arbilra tjou except under the Erdman act. |