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Show VOTE FOR STRIKE OF TELEGRAPHERS j . CHICAGO, Nov. 26. A. vote favoring a; strike of railway telegraphers on all the roads fn the United States and Canada was cast in Chicago today by the general gen-eral chairmen and secretaries of the fifty-one fifty-one Order of Railroad Telegraphers' divisions divi-sions of the western and middle western states. Similar meetings were held In Boston, Baltimore and Atlanta. The Chicago meeting was representative representa-tive of 45,000 government employees, who are dissatisfied with the supplements to general order No. 27, affecting wages and working conditions. It was voted to reject re-ject all these and telegrams wore sent to the meetings in other cities asking similar action. A revision of the wage awards is the first demand of the wire men, who ask a minimum of 60 cents an hour In place of tho 4-cetit minimum. Changes in the working conditions also are sought. |