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Show RAILROAD BALLOT IS FAVORABLE TO STRIKE One-fourth of 400,000 Votes Cast Are Counted; Complete Work Will Take Five Days. NEW YORK, Aug. 1. Ballots of one-fotirlh one-fotirlh of the 400, W0 members of four railroad brotherhoods, who are voting on the question of calling a general strike on 23") railroads, have been canvassed and they were virtually unanimously in favor of a strike, it was learned tonight. The ballots counted here today were received from the eastern and southeastern south-eastern territories and it is expected the count in these districts will be completed tomorrow. Chairmen of the general adjust ad-just in en t committees, representing workers work-ers on railroads west of Chicago and the Mississippi river, will report here, it ' was satd, not later than Saturday. Many of them are expected Thursday. " Timothy Shea, assistant president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Knginemen, wiio is in charge of the staff of fifty men counting the ballots, said tonight it will take fully five days to fount the votes from all territories. About 650 chairmen will repqrt here, he said. When the complete vote has been counted, probably on Saturday or Monday, Mon-day, Mr. Shea said, there will he a meeting meet-ing here of the national conference committee com-mittee of railways and the result will be submitted by the brotherhood officials. offi-cials. Negotiations then will be conducted con-ducted in the hope that a satisfactory settlement may be reached. A strike would be called only if t Fie negotiations failed. "The railway employees are not asking ask-ing an increase in pay, but only a shorter working day for the same wages for which they are now giving ten hours' service,'' said Mr. Shea. |