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Show STREET CAR MEN OF PHILADELPHIA WANT MORE MONEY PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 4. The executive ex-ecutive board of division No. 477 of the Amalgamated Association of Street ; and Electric Railway Employees of 1 America, after a meeting here tonight, S announced that unless the demands of ; the motormeo and conductors which I were submitted today to Thomas A. Mitten, president of the Philadelphia ' Rapid Transit company, were answered j favorably by noon tomorrow a strike I would be called within a few hours. Jn their demands the men asked for 40 cents an hour for all motormen and conductors, time and a half for all overtime over-time and that all runs be straight runs and that all grievances shall be adjusted adjust-ed by a committee composed of union men, and that men shall be allowed time for all work of the union without loss of seniority. Xo answer had been received from the company at a late hour tonight. According to officers of the union, about half of the 4700 employees will answer the call for a strike. Officials of the company, on the other hand, claim that less than 15 per cent of their men are members of the union and declare de-clare they have no fear of a strike. |