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Show SANCTION STRIKE ON RAILWAY HUE CHICAGO, March t Sanction from sixteen railroad brotherhood and unions for a strike of employes of the Atlanta. Birmingham A Atlantic railway rail-way was dispatched to local representatives representa-tives of the unions following a midnight conference of heads of the organisations organisa-tions here. A strike vote on the road was completed com-pleted January 2i. The local union officers of-ficers will fix the date of the strike. The conference Included B. M. Jewell, Jew-ell, president of the railway 'employes' 1 department of the American Federation I of Labor, and it was said the projected project-ed strike would have the backing; of the national federation. The waire question was recently taken before the railroad labor board, which directed that It be taken to conference con-ference with employes' repreaentatlvea. lter, the road went Into a federal receivership, re-ceivership, and the receiver ordered wages reduced. |